Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:59:54 -0800, Ray Andrews wrote: > On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:43:00 +0100, "Jeff" wrote: >> What options do we have to masquerade Arachne as Another Browser and >> Operating >> System? Is it easy to build in? >> I ask because of this nonsense: > It would be simple to make the useragent string an arachne.cfg option, > but would that be enough to fool these things? It does sound like fun > tho, you could report your browser as anything you want. If someone > wants to try it out in my core let me know and I'll build it in, > otherwise Glenn will probably add it to std. core. Your wish is my command. :) http://www.glennmcc.org/a193gpl/useragnt.zip This is a drop-in replacement for the current core.exe v1.93;GPL and its corresponding 'Options / Internet settings' setup page. Archive: L:/USERAGNT.ZIP Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Name -------- ------ ------- ----- ---- ---- ------ ---- 493344 Defl:X 204674 59% 09-10-08 22:24 f07ca60a CORE.EXE 8538 Defl:X 2560 70% 09-10-08 22:15 c738bc44 SYSTEM/GUI/OPT_NET.AH -------- ------- --- ------- 501882 207234 59% 2 files __________________________________________________________________________________ How's this for a set of choices ? |===================================================================| | Keep Arachne's original User-agent string | | Masquerade User-agent as Links browser on Linux | | Masquerade User-agent as Lynx browser on Linux | | Masquerade User-agent as Mozilla SeaMonkey on Linux | | Masquerade User-agent as Lynx browser on DOS | | Masquerade User-agent as DosLynx browser by Fred Macall | | Masquerade User-agent as MSIE v7.0 | |===================================================================| Here's the result of choosing to Masquerade as Mozilla SeaMonkey on Linux ___________________________________________________________________________ Page information for http://www.glennmcc.org/ Arachne v1.93 file:\arachne\cache\headers\21099996.htt Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:26:16 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sent to Server: GET / HTTP/1.0 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11: U: Linux i686: en-US: rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080313 SeaMonkey/1.1.9 Accept: */* Host: www.glennmcc.org Connection: Keep-Alive Referer: http://www.glennmcc.org/aqccc/ Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,* ================================================================================================== Received from Server: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:25:24 GMT Server: Apache Connection: close Content-Type: text/html ================================================================================================== URL: http://www.glennmcc.org/ Local: \arachne\cache\21099996.HTM ================================================================================================== -- Glenn http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/msdog.html http://www.glennmcc.org/ http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.table.html Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --