junkbuster user-agent defaults to Mozilla 3.0 for Macintosh
What's with this silly junkbuster default
user-agent @
in /etc/junkbuster/config ?
>From the manpage:
"In Version 1.4 and later, if user-agent is set to @ (at) these
headers are sent unchanged in cases where the cookiefile specifies
that a cookie would be sent, otherwise only default User-Agent
header is sent. That default is Mozilla/3.0 (Netscape) with an
unremarkable Macintosh configuration."
In other words, the user-agent is mangled by junkbuster to be Mozilla
3.0 for Macintosh. I noticed this when my friend wanted to check her
hotmail account on my linux box and hotmail complained about
an old browser version (although it would probably also explain some
problems I've had with other sites).
Shouldn't this be debianized to some reasonable default (like ".",
which passes the user-agent string through unchanged), or am I missing
something here? -chris
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