Re: [dev] [surf] browser identification

From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57_AT_fastmail.fm>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:34:35 +0100

On 25 Mar 2011, at 3:15 pm, Swiatoslaw Gal wrote:

> Hi,
>
> imbeciles coding sucking webpages check how the browser identifies
> itself.
> And if it is not sucking browser instead of desired content I get some
> ad about downloading sucking software.
>
> All I can check is for example aruljohn.com which tells me Your
> browser is
> Unknown Browser. At the same time luakit results with Mozilla 5.0
> while
> jumanji with Safari 5.0. But I am too blind to find anything
> relevant in
> their codes.
>
> How can I patch surf to identify as one of those?

There are lists of user-agent strings out there on the web. I set
mine to report it's an iphone which makes a lot of websites much nicer.
Received on Thu Mar 31 2011 - 22:34:35 CEST

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