On 5/18/10 5:28 PM, NoOp wrote: > On 05/17/2010 07:40 PM, David E. Ross wrote: >> I find that I am often describing sniffing and spoofing in this >> newsgroup. I decided to create a Web page that contains much of what I >> previously said here. >> >> I'm not quite satisfied with the phrasing. However, before I polish the >> page, I thought I might solict input in case I've omitted something or >> am giving incorrect information. Please review my draft at >> <http://www.rossde.com/internet/sniffing.html> and let me know in this >> thread if you find anything that should be changed, deleted, or added. >> > > You should make note of what I posted in the WMP thread awhile back: > > Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:41:53 -0700 > From: NoOp <[email protected]> > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) > Gecko/20100317 Firefox/3.6.3 (NOT - it's really SeaMonkey! Stop browser > sniffing) Lightning/1.0b1 SeaMonkey/2.0.4 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Newsgroups: mozilla.support.seamonkey > Subject: Re: WMP > References: <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> > In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > <quote> > I think that instead you'd want to add: > general.useragent.extra.firefox > and set the string accordingly. > > However I ran across a site this weekend that didn't accept even that. > So I ended up putting this in the string instead: > Firefox/3.6.3 (NOT - it's really SeaMonkey! Stop browser sniffing) > > Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; > rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Firefox/3.6.3 (NOT - it's really SeaMonkey! > Stop browser sniffing) Lightning/1.0b1 SeaMonkey/2.0.4 > > That worked. Site is here: > http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight/Get-Started/Install/Default.aspx > </quote> > > Note that for some reason that site sniffed for Firefox directly _after_ > the Gecko string and wouldn't accept the standard: > > Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) > Gecko/20100317 SeaMonkey/2.0.4 NOT Firefox/3.6.3 > > type string. You can test it for yourself from the link above. >
I've seen a few cases where a spoof of the form "SeaMonkey x, NOT Firefox y" did not work but where omitting any mention of SeaMonkey did work. I've updated the page accordingly. Thanks. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Go to Mozdev at <http://www.mozdev.org/> for quick access to extensions for Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and other Mozilla-related applications. You can access Mozdev much more quickly than you can Mozilla Add-Ons. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
