In the time of Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:11:09 +0200 thus spoke Christian Persch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi; > > Le mardi 24 juin 2008 à 12:34 -0400, Hex1a4 a écrit : > > Is there a way, and if so how, to spoof the user agent string for a > > given site? Sometimes sites have those stupid browser checks and I > > can't access their content using Epiphany. When I visit the site > > using Firefox (one of the browsers checked for) the site works just > > fine, so I know Epiphany will also work, if I can only get through > > that darn browser check. > > Are you using debian's epiphany package? If so, this problem exists > because the debian maintainers have, in their infinite wisdom, chosen > to override the epiphany developers and have removed the > "Firefox/x.y" part from the epiphany UA string. > You check that epiphany's UA includes the "Firefox/x.y" part by > loading the about: URL; and you can add parts to it by creating > "general.useragent.extra.XXXXX" preferences in about:config. > > If a site does check for "Firefox/x.y" specifically instead of just > checking for a gecko-powered browser, it's a site bug; please refer > the site owners to http://geckoisgecko.org/ . > > Christian > Yes I am. I added the extra string to the UAID. Thank you. I was hoping for an extension, perhaps something similar to the one Firefox has, but this will do. Again, thank you. -- hex1a4.net || mirror.hex1a4.net || xubuntu.linux.hex1a4.net _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
