Re: Browser identification to websites
Mihira Fernando wrote:
From Joe's observations its safe to assume that site is using browser
identification in its scripts so its probably looking only for IE and
Netscape/Firefox identifiers and all others getting the 'Access Denied'
page.
On the "Internet & Network">"Web Browser">"Browser Identification" page
of the KDE Control Centre one can check the "Send identification" box.
If checked, the default identification is sent, which in my case is
"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5) KHTML/3.5.5 (like Gecko)".
(There are also four options to add to the default identification:
operating system name, platform name, machine (processor) type and
language information. none of which I have selected.)
In addition there is provision to add site specific identification. For
each site added to the list, there are 29 identification options from
which to choose. For this particular website, www.sunnet.sunlife.com, I
chose "Netscape 7.1 on Windows XP"; and so I was able to connect to it.
However, I have just discovered that *now* I *can* access this site
using Iceweasel with the "Default" option of the User Agent Switcher
extension selected. The only reason I can think of why it works now but
did not before was because in the meantime I had closed Iceweasel and
then re-opened it. It would consequently appear that after an extension
is installed in Iceweasel -- at least the User Agent Switcher --
Iceweasel has to be closed and restarted for the extension to take effect.
Ken Heard
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