Re: [MLUG] Tricking Browser Identification Techniques

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mozilla can also have a Preferences bar added that will let you click a
lil box on your toolbar to change the user agent. It also allows nice
touches like easy access to blocking popups, enabling java, javascript,
custom fonts, images, etc. It does tickle a bug in some builds of Mozilla
though.. they crash if you change such a setting while a page is loading.


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Michael McGlothlin <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
http://kavlon.org/projects/

On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Mark Rages wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 01:36:41PM -0600, Neil Bradshaw wrote:
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > I had this idea for getting around problems with alleged browser
> > incompatibility problems. When I go to my online banking web site, I have
> > to use IE on Windows to make it work. I'm 99.99 percent sure that it would
> > work with Mozilla, but it won't even let me try.
> >
> > Does anybody know how web servers know what browser I'm using? Can you
> > think of any way to trick the server into thinking I have IE for Windows
> > so that I can check my fscking bank account balance with Linux? I'm
> > brainstorming on it now, but someone on the list might show their genius
> > and figure this one out before me. I'm not too worried about it, I just
> > want to know how much money is in my account!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Neil Bradshaw
>
> This one is easy.  The browser sends a User-agent field with every HTTP GET. To
> change the one in Mozilla, follow the instructions at
> http://www.granneman.com/webdev/browsers/mozillan/changemo/index
>
> Or use konqueror; it lets you select user-agent from the preferences.
>
> wget also has the option, but it would be inconvenient for your purpose.
>
> Regards,
> Mark
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