Re: User-Agent

From: Chris Faulhaber (jedgar@fxp.org)
Date: 04/26/01 

Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 07:41:17 -0400
From: Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>
To: Rocco Lucia <rlucia@iscanet.com>

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:41:03PM +0200, Rocco Lucia wrote:
> At 7:33 -0300 26-04-2001, ignacio wrote:
> >When netscape connects to a http server,
> >it's sends something like this:
> >
> >
> > GET / HTTP/1.0
> > Connection: Keep-Alive
> > User-Agent: Mozilla/4.73 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.3-RC i386)
> >
> >And when you send a mail, in the headers you can see:
> >
> > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.3-RC i386)
> >
> >
> >So, 2 questions:
> >
> >1) How netscape gets info from the O.S. and version (uname perhaps?)
>
> it is hardwired at compile time
>

Nope. If you use the Linux version of Netscape, you can change the
string to read what you want using sysctl values (sysctl -a | grep linux)
allowing you to use versions like:

"Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 3.1.33.7 i386)"

or

"Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE i386)"

beware: other Linux programs (like vmware) depend on this version
information and may not run with odd values. 

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