User Agent to add

[Dawit A.]

On Tuesday 07 September 2004 06:08, David Faure wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 September 2004 08:58, Kenneth Peiruza wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >    Once I requiered to add Googlebot UA to the kio's UA-list. I've found
> > this useful in my job as Security Tester.
> >
> >    I'd be glad to see it included, but I don't have/want CVS access!
>
> Added, thanks.
>
> > However, it should be great to add an UA-Editor IOT edit/create your own
> > User Agents.
>
> Dawit: the user-agent used to be editable, right? Why was it made
> non-editable?

Yes, it used to be editable. I changed it because we wanted to encourage 
people to stop changing the UA string. I think the reason is obvious. If we 
always pretend to be another browser, no website will bother fixing their 
broken sites that only accomodate IE or any other specific browser 
implementation. Anyways, that is the same reason why it is no longer easy to 
change the default user-agent string to something else. However, I guess it 
makes sense to allow the user edit the existing entries just like the 
web-shortcuts. I will put it on my todo list...

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Regards,
Dawit A.
"Preach what you practice, practice what you preach"