[arachne] Re: Browser User Agent

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Hi Folks,

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:59:54 -0800
"Ray Andrews" <randrews@xxxxxxxxx> 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:

    As an ex-pat Brit, I am horrified at the way the UK is developing in any 
number of ways, but this has the distinct odour of brown paper bags stuffed 
with money !

> 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.

   You know I will have a play with that when you do it.   :)
If Opera and Firefox can do it, then of course Arachne should have it, too !

   The downside, of course, is that the Arachne stats around the web will 
become even smaller.
OTOH: I don't think that many web logs even record Arachne separately, but just 
keep the more high-profile browsers stats and put everything else into "other".

   I think my domains are unusual in that they do record Arachne visits, right 
down to the version numbers.

Regards,
        Ron

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