Re: User-Agent

From: Jamie Heckford (heckfordj@psi-domain.co.uk)
Date: 04/26/01 

Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 15:49:56 +0100
From: Jamie Heckford <heckfordj@psi-domain.co.uk>
To: Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>

Hmm.

Attempting to modify these values return:

sysctl: oid 'kern.version' is read only

Any way of changing these then?

Jamie

On 2001.04.26 12:41 Chris Faulhaber wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org
> --------------------------------------------------------
> FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org
> 

-- 
Jamie Heckford
Network Operations Manager
Psi-Domain - Innovative Linux Solutions. Ask Us How.
FreeBSD - The power to serve
Join our mailing list and stay informed by emailing
majordomo@psi-domain.co.uk with the line:
subscribe collective
=====================================
email:  heckfordj@psi-domain.co.uk
web:    http://www.psi-domain.co.uk/
tel:    +44 (0)1737 789 246
fax:    +44 (0)1737 789 245
mobile: +44 (0)7866 724 224 
=====================================
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message