On 11/23/2009 1:45 PM, NoOp wrote [in part]:
> On 11/23/2009 07:13 AM, I previously wrote [also in part]:
>> I would definitely NOT spoof permanently. Permanent spoofing tells the
>> Web site developers that everything is okay when that is not true.
>> Then, when someone complains that their site does not work with
>> SeaMonkey, they say that no one uses SeaMonkey to access their site.
>
> Says David while using Thunderbird :-)
I use Thunderbird as my newsgroup application because, when I switch
SeaMonkey profiles, I don't want to lose my current newsgroup session.
> The reason for the 'NOT Firefox/<someversion>' has been discussed quite
> a lot in the past. The conclusion was to add it in that manner so that
> SeaMonkey would be recongnized, while at the same time by passing the Fx
> sniffing issue. If someone is gathering stats on their site they
> will/should see the SeaMonkey in the UA string.
You assume that some human sees the logs. I'm only guessing, but I
think that very rarely happens. When I spoof, I use the following UA
string:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4)
Gecko/20091017 SeaMonkey/2.0, NOT Firefox/3.5.3
The processing that summarizes the logs for human use is very likely to
be similar to the processing that makes a server think I'm using Firefox.
--
David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>
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