Re: Browser identification to websites
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Ken Heard wrote:
> Greg Folkert wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 09:52 +0700, Ken Heard wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> I would certainly like to see such and identification capability in
>>> Iceweasel. What are the possibilities?
>>
>> http://chrispederick.com/work/useragentswitcher/
>>
>> That is the one you are looking for.
>
> Thanks for the tip. I tried to access one particular website using the
> default agent (Mozilla/5) and the MSIE and Netscape options listed, to
> no avail. I then imported a long list of user agents from bstrange
> which I found on on of Chris Pederick's fora. I tried using several of
> the agents that list which looked likely (versions of MSIE and Netscape
> 7 and later), but the website was still blocked.
>
> Either the one particular site I wanted to access is one which cannot be
> accessed that way (Chris warns about this possibility), or I don't know
> how to use the switcher.
>
> The window which opened on that site instead of the login window told me
> 1) I needed to have the correct date and time, 2) I needed to have
> Javascript and Accept Cookies enabled, 3) I needed 128 bit enabled, and
> 4) I should install either MSIE 6 or Netscape 7 from the download
> centres I gave me for my convenience. I have the first three and don't
> need the fourth.
>
> So this site seems to do its detection in some other way. Strangely, I
> can access it with Konqueror which describes itself as Mozilla/5 etc.
>
> Ken Heard
>
>
Can you tell us which website this is that is giving you problems so we
can test it?
Personally, I've found that some websites will block me because of my
location, and that's something I cannot change. Unfortunately my ISP
identifies me as being here. Perhaps I need to look into anonymizers.
I imagine people in some other countries (China perhaps) have the same
problem with a lot more sites than I do.
Joe
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