Re: Netscape 4.7x for Debian/PPC?

[Wolfgang Pfeiffer <roto@gmx.net>]

On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> There is a favorite web site that unfortunately has hardcoded their scripting to
> specifically respond only to IE 5.x or Navigator 4.7x, so I was wondering if
> there ever was a release of Netscape 4.7x for Linux/PPC?
>
> Thanks!

Much too much effort, to install a complete browser only to satisfy
bizarre server policies-

apt-get install privoxy

Quick-start, from memory, IIRC:

Changing the proxy settings in a browser to this:

"Manual proxy configuration" (for Mozilla)

------------------------------------
HTTP Proxy: localhost, on port 8118
SSL Proxy: localhost, on port 8118
------------------------------------------


And with this in
/etc/privoxy/user.action
------------------------------------------------------------
{ \
+hide-user-agent{Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)} \
}
/

-------------------------------------------

every site will think I'm on IE and NT ... :)

More user-agents via google ...

Checking the user-agent:
<http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy>

Restarting privoxy after changes? Not being sure on whether it's
necessary:

/etc/init.d/privoxy restart
(or something like that ... )

I love this little tool.

Even a user-agent like this one is something a site has to swallow:

+hide-user-agent{I am Cyborg, so get the hell out of my way ... !} \

... one reason why I love computers ... :)

HTH

Regards,
Wolfgang

>

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