Your message dated Tue, 28 Jun 2016 02:34:17 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> has caused the report #827186, regarding links2: Setting "-only-proxies 1" also sets "-http.fake-firefox 1" unconditionally to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software author(s) Mikulas Patocka <[email protected]>
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--- Begin Message ---Hi Mikulas, while we're at it, this bug report about -only-proxies recently came in, too, at https://bugs.debian.org/827186. Citing the relevants parts of the mail with most details: ----- Forwarded message from Axel Beckert <[email protected]> ----- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 19:55:17 +0200 From: Axel Beckert <[email protected]> To: Fulano Diego Perez <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Bug#827186: links2: -http.fake-user-agent "UA" fails Fulano Diego Perez wrote: [...] > with all 3 below [the User-Agent string is always Firefox]: > > $ links2 -socks-proxy 127.0.0.1:9051 -only-proxies 1 -http.referer 0 > -http.fake-user-agent "3 com" https://wtfismyip.com/headers/ > > $ links2 -socks-proxy 127.0.0.1:9051 -only-proxies 1 -http.referer 0 > -http.fake-user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:45.0) > Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0" https://wtfismyip.com/headers/ > > $ links2 -socks-proxy 127.0.0.1:9051 -only-proxies 1 -http.referer 0 > -http.fake-user-agent " " https://wtfismyip.com/headers/ Thanks for these more detailed examples. That helped a lot to understand where the issue is. I can confirm that these combinations of options behave as if -http.fake-firefox would have been set to 1. Dropping the "-only-proxies 1" make the remainder work as expected. Unfortunately I found no obvious reason in the source code why these two options should be connected. Will forward the issue to upstream. [...] ----- End forwarded message ----- According to the changelog it's a feature since 2.9: An option to fake Firefox in the HTTP header. It modifies User-Agent and several other options to be more Firefox-like. This option is also automatically turned on when "Connect only via proxies or Socks (useful for tor)" is selected. It makes it safer to use Links with tor. But it seems that the name of the "-only-proxies" feature is confusing people as they don't expect that the User-Agent string is modified by it and not overridable anymore afterwards. Maybe it's currently a little bit too overzealous? Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and News | [email protected] (Mail) X See http://www.nonhtmlmail.org/campaign.html | [email protected] (Mail+Jabber) / \ I love long mails: http://email.is-not-s.ms/ | http://abe.noone.org/ (Web)
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