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Getting around a browser sniffer
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I need to use a website that has an unreasonable browser sniffer. There's no reason it shouldn't work on a Mac browser, except that it dumps you to an error page if you're using anything but IE on a Windows box. And I don't want to use Virtual PC. It's slow.
Back when camino was chimera, I had this little plugin that allowed you to fool the browser sniffers. You could pretty much select any browser on any platform, and that's what chimera would send to the browser sniffers, allowing you to surf the net in peace. But I can't remember what it was called.
Does anyone know of a program like the one described above, for any of the Mac browsers? Thanks!
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If you enable the debug menu in Safari you can choose the user agent string for it to send. Quit safari then paste this into terminal.app:
defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1
and press return. You'll see the new debug menu and the option for you to change the UA string.
You can do it in Firefox by typing about: config in the URL bar and editing the corresponding key/value.
Hope that helps a wee bit.
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Just who are Britain? What do they? Who is them? And why?
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That's exactly what I was looking for - thanks!
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OK, another question. The debug/user agent trick works great, except when the browser launches a new window, the user agent reverts back to "choose automatically." So when this stupid website I have to use launches a new window, I get the "you're not a Windows-using drone" error. And there is no way to use this web-based application without the new window launching.
Is there a way to get the browser to remember your selected user agent when it launches a new window?
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I'm not sure there is a way for it to remember... but... have you tried command+clicking on the link so that it opens up in a new tab instead of a new window?
SafariStand can also force any target_blank" commands to open in a tab instead of a window... worth trying.
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Originally Posted by Fusion
I'm not sure there is a way for it to remember... but... have you tried command+clicking on the link so that it opens up in a new tab instead of a new window?
But opening in a new tab resets the user agent too, so that doesn't work... 
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Last edited by HurricaneMB; Nov 6, 2005 at 10:13 PM.
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Switching the UA in the new window reloads that window. Did you try it anyway?
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You could try Safari Enhancer... It has a feature like that...
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Originally Posted by Spiky919
You could try Safari Enhancer... It has a feature like that...
That did the trick! Thank you all very much! 
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