KConfig::checkUpdate()

David Faure faure at kde.org
Tue Oct 23 00:15:30 BST 2007


On Monday 22 October 2007, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> I'm sorry, but you are wrong. It can happen that Konqueror (or more 
> precisely kio_khttp) keeps sending out a user agent string one has 
> configured ages ago and that doesn't appear anywhere in the 
> configuration dialog of an up-to-date Konqueror. This happened to me 
> and I only found this problem because some web page didn't work with 
> Konqueror and the web admin replied to my complaint by telling me that 
> they do actually test their web site with Konqueror, but that I'm 
> sending out a "Netscape 4.78" user agent string. I went to check the 
> configuration of Konqueror. It claimed that Konqueror would use his 
> standard user agent string. A short test with wireshark proofed that 
> Konqueror was lying. Only by grepping $KDEHOME/share/config I found the 
> problem in kio_httprc.

Sounds like a bug, but not a kconfig_update related bug.
I'm not aware of any kconfig_update for kio_httprc and other kioslave rc files.

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).




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