[arachne] Re: Browser User Agent

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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

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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
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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
==================================================================================================


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