[NTLUG:Discuss] Faking another Browser.

[jeremyb@univista.com]

You can enter any identification string you want in Opera's configuration
GUI.
It includes some standards to choose from if you don't wanna enter something
like....
 HighTechBrowserThing 1.0

-----Original Message-----
From: Rusty Haddock [mailto:rusty at fe2o3.lonestar.org] 
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 9:37 PM
To: discuss at ntlug.org
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Faking another Browser.


Steve Baker wrote:
    >
    >My wife has been trying to access a web site that seems to be testing
    >to see which browser we are using - and it complains if you are using
    >anything *other* then Internet Explorer.  <grrrrr>

I hate when that happens...

    >I vaguely recollect that you can tell Mozilla (or maybe it was one of
    >the other Linux browsers) to lie to the HTTP server and pretend to be
    >some other browser (eg Internet Explorer).

Opera used to be able to do it.

    >Does anyone have a clue how to do that?

A binary editor (or Emacs and now Vim too) and the Mozilla executable???
:-) Been there, done that.

	-Rusty-
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