Re: UA spoofing

2019-08-12 Thread Daniel
Paul B. Gallagher wrote on 12/08/2019 11:41 PM: Daniel wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote on 12/08/2019 4:17 PM: Hartmut Figge wrote: Paul B. Gallagher: Could someone remind me again how to lie to a specific website about my user agent? They're doing bad browser sniffing and refuse to play unti

Re: UA spoofing

2019-08-12 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Daniel wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote on 12/08/2019 4:17 PM: Hartmut Figge wrote: Paul B. Gallagher: Could someone remind me again how to lie to a specific website about my user agent? They're doing bad browser sniffing and refuse to play until I prove that I have at least Firefox 47 [sic].

Re: UA spoofing

2019-08-12 Thread Don Spam's Reckless Son
Daniel wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote on 12/08/2019 4:17 PM: Hartmut Figge wrote: Paul B. Gallagher: Could someone remind me again how to lie to a specific website about my user agent? They're doing bad browser sniffing and refuse to play until I prove that I have at least Firefox 47 [sic].

Re: UA spoofing

2019-08-12 Thread Daniel
Paul B. Gallagher wrote on 12/08/2019 4:17 PM: Hartmut Figge wrote: Paul B. Gallagher: Could someone remind me again how to lie to a specific website about my user agent? They're doing bad browser sniffing and refuse to play until I prove that I have at least Firefox 47 [sic]. Here are two e

Re: UA spoofing

2019-08-11 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Hartmut Figge wrote: Paul B. Gallagher: Could someone remind me again how to lie to a specific website about my user agent? They're doing bad browser sniffing and refuse to play until I prove that I have at least Firefox 47 [sic]. Here are two examples from my user.js: user_pref("general.us

Re: UA spoofing

2019-08-11 Thread Hartmut Figge
Paul B. Gallagher: >Could someone remind me again how to lie to a specific website about my >user agent? They're doing bad browser sniffing and refuse to play until >I prove that I have at least Firefox 47 [sic]. Here are two examples from my user.js: user_pref("general.useragent.override.inde

Re: UA Spoofing.

2010-08-29 Thread Ed Mullen
Robert Kaiser wrote: Manuel Reimer schrieb: Robert Kaiser wrote: Actually, as much as I hate appending "Firefox" to any UA string of browsers that are not Firefox, I just filed a bug to make any Gecko that not has "Firefox" in its UA string right now to send one in the future. I don't think t

Re: UA Spoofing.

2010-08-29 Thread Robert Kaiser
Phillip Jones schrieb: Finally they did switch to add support for Firefox. however to this day there sniffing code is /FireFox, not /gecko Welcome to our world! :-/ To Georg, Manuel, and others who are affronting me over bug 591617 and things like that, this is just one very small case of tho

Re: UA Spoofing.

2010-08-29 Thread Robert Kaiser
Georg Maaß schrieb: When my XulRunner applications starts spamming Firefox UA telling a lie to the world, I will start FF spoofing on my web sites to ban all UAs containing FireFox. Please do that. I hate FireFox. Then stop using Gecko, as Gecko isn't nothing more than the Firefox web rend

Re: UA Spoofing.

2010-08-29 Thread Robert Kaiser
Manuel Reimer schrieb: Robert Kaiser wrote: Actually, as much as I hate appending "Firefox" to any UA string of browsers that are not Firefox, I just filed a bug to make any Gecko that not has "Firefox" in its UA string right now to send one in the future. I don't think this is a good idea. We

Re: UA Spoofing.

2010-08-29 Thread Phillip Jones
David E. Ross wrote: On 8/28/10 7:43 PM, Phillip Jones wrote: Manuel Reimer wrote: Robert Kaiser wrote: Actually, as much as I hate appending "Firefox" to any UA string of browsers that are not Firefox, I just filed a bug to make any Gecko that not has "Firefox" in its UA string right now to s

Re: UA Spoofing.

2010-08-29 Thread Beauregard T. Shagnasty
Georg Maaß wrote: > Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: >> But what is the need to inflict your personal problems on your >> visitors? > > Exactly this is, what stupid web authors do with UA name spoofing > instead of doing needed feature testing. I'll agree with that. Web developers should strive t

Re: UA Spoofing.

2010-08-29 Thread Georg Maaß
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: But what is the need to inflict your personal problems on your visitors? Exactly this is, what stupid web authors do with UA name spoofing instead of doing needed feature testing. Firefox is an enemy, because it is an egoist make a lot of unnecessary trouble t

Re: UA Spoofing.

2010-08-29 Thread Beauregard T. Shagnasty
In mozilla.support.seamonkey, Georg Maaß wrote: > When my XulRunner applications starts spamming Firefox UA telling a > lie to the world, I will start FF spoofing on my web sites to ban all > UAs containing FireFox. One hopes you are talking about your personal web sites, not business ones. It wo

Re: UA Spoofing.

2010-08-29 Thread Georg Maaß
When my XulRunner applications starts spamming Firefox UA telling a lie to the world, I will start FF spoofing on my web sites to ban all UAs containing FireFox. I hate FireFox. I do not accept UA containing FireFox, if it is not a FireFox but only uses the Mozilla toolkit. It is ok, if the

Re: UA Spoofing.

2010-08-28 Thread David E. Ross
On 8/28/10 7:43 PM, Phillip Jones wrote: > Manuel Reimer wrote: >> Robert Kaiser wrote: >>> Actually, as much as I hate appending "Firefox" to any UA string of >>> browsers that are not Firefox, I just filed a bug to make any Gecko that >>> not has "Firefox" in its UA string right now to send one i

Re: UA Spoofing.

2010-08-28 Thread Phillip Jones
Manuel Reimer wrote: Robert Kaiser wrote: Actually, as much as I hate appending "Firefox" to any UA string of browsers that are not Firefox, I just filed a bug to make any Gecko that not has "Firefox" in its UA string right now to send one in the future. I don't think this is a good idea. Webm

Re: UA Spoofing.

2010-08-28 Thread Manuel Reimer
Robert Kaiser wrote: Actually, as much as I hate appending "Firefox" to any UA string of browsers that are not Firefox, I just filed a bug to make any Gecko that not has "Firefox" in its UA string right now to send one in the future. I don't think this is a good idea. Webmasters should learn to

Re: UA Spoofing.

2010-08-28 Thread J. Weaver Jr.
Robert Kaiser wrote: Actually, as much as I hate appending "Firefox" to any UA string of browsers that are not Firefox, I just filed a bug to make any Gecko that not has "Firefox" in its UA string right now to send one in the future. Bug #, please? -JW _

Re: UA Spoofing.

2010-08-28 Thread Robert Kaiser
David Cox schrieb: On 27/08/2010 11:33 PM, Robert Kaiser wrote: Philip Chee schrieb: New is: general.useragent.compatMode.firefox Which should be the "weapon of choice" now when spoofing Firefox. And we might even add UI for that. Thanks Robert, please do. I admit I'm lazy and use general.u

Re: UA Spoofing.

2010-08-28 Thread Philip Chee
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:19:32 -0400, Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: > On 8/27/2010 7:21 AM, Philip Chee wrote: >> New is: >> >> general.useragent.compatMode.firefox > > In addition for the RFDocumentation, I'd love bug/cset link. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581008 Bug 581008 - Remov

Re: UA Spoofing.

2010-08-27 Thread Justin Wood (Callek)
On 8/27/2010 7:21 AM, Philip Chee wrote: On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:10:20 +0100, Neil wrote: NoOp wrote: And yes... I'll modify the UA's on the Win machines before doing browser checks :-) If you are going to spoof Firefox, it might be an idea to spoof the version of Firefox with the same Geck

Re: UA Spoofing.

2010-08-27 Thread David Cox
On 27/08/2010 11:33 PM, Robert Kaiser wrote: Philip Chee schrieb: New is: general.useragent.compatMode.firefox Which should be the "weapon of choice" now when spoofing Firefox. And we might even add UI for that. Thanks Robert, please do. I admit I'm lazy and use general.useragent.extra.spoof

Re: UA Spoofing.

2010-08-27 Thread NoOp
On 08/27/2010 04:21 AM, Philip Chee wrote: > On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:10:20 +0100, Neil wrote: >> NoOp wrote: >> >>>And yes... I'll modify the UA's on the Win machines before doing browser >>>checks :-) >>> >>> >> If you are going to spoof Firefox, it might be an idea to spoof the >> version of

Re: UA Spoofing.

2010-08-27 Thread Robert Kaiser
Philip Chee schrieb: New is: general.useragent.compatMode.firefox Which should be the "weapon of choice" now when spoofing Firefox. And we might even add UI for that. Robert Kaiser -- Note that any statements of mine - no matter how passionate - are never meant to be offensive but very of