User Agent to add

[Kenneth Peiruza]

Hi all,

In the open-source (actually free software) world, there's no acceptable 
browser with the possibility of setting the UA you want (crafted ones!) 
easily.

As I've said, I do Penetration-Testing, so I need to do lots of work 
with browsers. However, I'm not glad to see that I need to 
"post-install" some files in order to do work decently.

I don't know if it should be easy or not to change the UA for all the 
sites but you should be able to create your own UAs without creating 
regular files by hand in order to use them at any place.

Moreover, nobody will try to create its own UA despite he/she knows what 
is he/she doing. The problem with IE will still be there for a lot of 
time and enabling an user to create a UA will not change this at all.


Regards!


Dawit A. wrote:

>On Tuesday 07 September 2004 06:08, David Faure wrote:
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>>On Tuesday 07 September 2004 08:58, Kenneth Peiruza wrote:
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>>>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!
>>>      
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>>Added, thanks.
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>>>However, it should be great to add an UA-Editor IOT edit/create your own
>>>User Agents.
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>>>
>>Dawit: the user-agent used to be editable, right? Why was it made
>>non-editable?
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>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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