[Diggory Laycock]

Hi,

Occasionally I need to change the UserAgent of my browser to get in to a specific site.

The UA string I need is not one of the normal ones. (Mozilla/4.00 [en] (PS2-PTV 1.0) Interactor 2.2)

I used to be able to use Omniweb, but it now seems to add "omniweb/vXXX) to the end:

Mozilla/4.00 [en] (PS2-PTV 1.0) Interactor 2.2 OmniWeb/v496

I was under the impression that you could get OW to hide the end part by changing the defaults:

defaults write com.omnigroup.OmniWeb OWHTTPHideTrueIdentity -boolean true

however this doesn't seem to work any more -- did I get the default key wrong? or Does that option no longer work?

Also - is there a way to add a UA string to the ones listed in Safari's debug menu? I couldn't find the UAs in any plists either in the Safari bundle, or the WebKit framework.

[cpac]

cant you just type in exactly what you want to identify as in OW's compatibility preferences?
(the little hint says you have to put a "%@" or something to add the (Omniweb vXXX) to the string).

[Diggory Laycock]

Originally posted by cpac:
cant you just type in exactly what you want to identify as in OW's compatibility preferences?
(the little hint says you have to put a "%@" or something to add the (Omniweb vXXX) to the string).

No - I tested it with a PHP page that echoes the UA - (Mozilla/4.00 [en] (PS2-PTV 1.0) Interactor 2.2 OmniWeb/v496)

I was told a while ago that altering the default mentioned in the original post would hide the "True Identity" - but it does not appear to work anymore (or I got the Defaults key subtly wrong.)