Comments on: The Answer to Schenk’s Question http://www.mikedidonato.com/2008/02/05/the-answer-to-schenks-question/ It's hard being a superstar Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:53:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Andrew http://www.mikedidonato.com/2008/02/05/the-answer-to-schenks-question/#comment-72800 Andrew Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:53:04 +0000 http://www.mikedidonato.com/2008/02/05/the-answer-to-schenks-question/#comment-72800 Some sites -- like Sony's Connect store -- will only render if they think you're the "correct" browser (often IE). You can fool them into rendering in Firefox by changing your user agent. You can do it in Firefox by: Type "about:config" in the address bar Right click, "New >" "String" Type "general.useragent.override" Then put whatever you want in, this would be IE6 on WinXP "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)" Here's a list of junk you could put in there if you wanted: http://www.zytrax.com/tech/web/browser_ids.htm Some sites — like Sony’s Connect store — will only render if they think you’re the “correct” browser (often IE). You can fool them into rendering in Firefox by changing your user agent.

You can do it in Firefox by:
Type “about:config” in the address bar
Right click, “New >” “String”
Type “general.useragent.override”
Then put whatever you want in, this would be IE6 on WinXP “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)”

Here’s a list of junk you could put in there if you wanted:
http://www.zytrax.com/tech/web/browser_ids.htm

]]> By: mike d. http://www.mikedidonato.com/2008/02/05/the-answer-to-schenks-question/#comment-72792 mike d. Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:27:58 +0000 http://www.mikedidonato.com/2008/02/05/the-answer-to-schenks-question/#comment-72792 Interesting. Why? Interesting. Why?

]]> By: Ryan Schenk http://www.mikedidonato.com/2008/02/05/the-answer-to-schenks-question/#comment-72791 Ryan Schenk Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:26:59 +0000 http://www.mikedidonato.com/2008/02/05/the-answer-to-schenks-question/#comment-72791 One should keep in mind that it is possible for a browser to identify itself to your server as a different browser than what it really is. Nerdier and/or more obscure browsers will even let the user pick which user agent they'd like to identify themselves as, so for instance I might be able to configure Opera to identify itself as IE 6 if I wanted to. (Not sure if Opera can really do that, just picked it out of thin air.) When I request this page with Safari 3, it tells your server that it is: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/523.10.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/523.10.6 One should keep in mind that it is possible for a browser to identify itself to your server as a different browser than what it really is. Nerdier and/or more obscure browsers will even let the user pick which user agent they’d like to identify themselves as, so for instance I might be able to configure Opera to identify itself as IE 6 if I wanted to. (Not sure if Opera can really do that, just picked it out of thin air.)

When I request this page with Safari 3, it tells your server that it is: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/523.10.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/523.10.6

]]> By: Nicole http://www.mikedidonato.com/2008/02/05/the-answer-to-schenks-question/#comment-72790 Nicole Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:10:44 +0000 http://www.mikedidonato.com/2008/02/05/the-answer-to-schenks-question/#comment-72790 Firefox is the sweetness... however I can't use it at work.... Opera is allowed which can be better than internet explorer, but sometimes it blows up the internet. Firefox is the sweetness… however I can’t use it at work…. Opera is allowed which can be better than internet explorer, but sometimes it blows up the internet.

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