What software is sending User-Agent “Test Certificate Info”?
My guess someone read this and didn’t end up changing the example code.
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What is the standard format for a browser’s User-Agent string?
The User-Agent header is part of the RFC7231, which is an improved version of the RFC1945, where it states: The User-Agent request-header field contains information about the user agent originating the request. This is for statistical purposes, the tracing of protocol violations, and automated recognition of user agents for the sake of tailoring responses to … Read more
Why does Internet Explorer (9) report “Mozilla” in UserAgent?
this should do it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla When users visit a website (via a user agent such as a web browser), a text string is generally sent to identify the user agent to the web server. It is known as the “user agent string”. The Netscape web browser identified itself as “Mozilla/” followed by some information about … Read more
How to detect device name in Safari on iOS 13 while it doesn’t show the correct user agent?
Indeed, while option change in Settings may be a good solution for the user, as a developer you can’t rely on that. It is as weird as to ask the user to not to use dark mode cause your app doesn’t support it instead of opt-out of it using plist. As for me, the most … Read more
Why does Chrome use sec-ch-ua: “\”Not\\A;Brand”;v=”99″?
It seems that it’s part of Chromium’s GREASEing strategy: User agents’ brands containing more than a single entry could encourage standardized processing of the UA string. By randomly including additional, intentionally incorrect, comma-separated entries with arbitrary ordering, they would reduce the chance that we ossify on a few required strings. Looking at the Chromium repository, … Read more
Mocking a useragent in javascript?
Try: navigator.__defineGetter__(‘userAgent’, function(){ return ‘foo’ // customized user agent }); navigator.userAgent; // ‘foo’ Tried it in FF2 and FF3.
Changing User Agent in Python 3 for urrlib.request.urlopen
From the Python docs: import urllib.request req = urllib.request.Request( url, data=None, headers={ ‘User-Agent’: ‘Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.47 Safari/537.36’ } ) f = urllib.request.urlopen(req) print(f.read().decode(‘utf-8’))
Setting user agent of a java URLConnection
Just for clarification: setRequestProperty(“User-Agent”, “Mozilla …”) now works just fine and doesn’t append java/xx at the end! At least with Java 1.6.30 and newer. I listened on my machine with netcat(a port listener): $ nc -l -p 8080 It simply listens on the port, so you see anything which gets requested, like raw http-headers. And … Read more
How to detect Browser type in Django?
You can extract that information from the request object like so: request.META[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’]
Detect 64-bit or 32-bit Windows from User Agent or Javascript?
Try this, looks for WOW64 (32-bit on 64-bit) or Win64 (native 64-bit) in the user-agent string. if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf(“WOW64”) != -1 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf(“Win64”) != -1 ){ alert(“This is a 64 bit OS”); } else { alert(“Not a 64 bit OS”); }