[privoxy-users] [ ijbswa-Support Requests-2039620 ] My user agent is detected

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Support Requests item #2039620, was opened at 2008-08-06 02:37
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Category: configuration
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>Status: Closed
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: My user agent is detected

Initial Comment:
This is my first time here. I've spent some hours(well, at least 1h30) reading the FAQ, user manual and the config. files.
Actually I've setup User Agent string to send and clicked on submit. Anyway, the point is 
www.useragent.org still detects my user agent.

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Comment By: Lee (ler762)
Date: 2008-08-08 15:30

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I'm glad that you got it working :)
Thanks for the report


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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2008-08-07 12:01

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Bingo. It's working. The file to edit is default.action. :-)

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2008-08-06 18:39

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-filter{content-cookies} \
 +hide-user-agent{testing} \
 -session-cookies-only \

I've changed to 

{ -filter{content-cookies}
/
{ +hide-user-agent{testing} }
/

I get the same error.

Any other tips, please?

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Comment By: Lee (ler762)
Date: 2008-08-06 16:39

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Try adding it in as a separate action.

If you've got something like this in your user.action:

{ -crunch-incoming-cookies -crunch-outgoing-cookies }
/

Change it to

{ -crunch-incoming-cookies -crunch-outgoing-cookies }
/

{ +hide-user-agent{testing} }
/


Lee

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2008-08-06 16:09

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"Privoxy error

Fatal error: can't load action file '.\user.action': invalid line (86):
{+crunch-client-header{X-Whatever:} -crunch-incoming-cookies -
crunch-outgoing-cookies -filter{content-cookies}
{+hide-user-agent{testing}} 
-session-cookies-only}"

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Comment By: Lee (ler762)
Date: 2008-08-06 15:39

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> In user.action file I've added 
> +hide-user-agent{testing} \
> It's not working here.

Right, that won't work.  You need curly braces around the +hide-user-agent
and you need to tell Privoxy which URLs to filter.

try this:

{ +hide-user-agent{testing} }
/






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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2008-08-06 13:07

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In user.action file I've added 

+hide-user-agent{testing} \

It's not working here.

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2008-08-06 12:38

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Where do I put these lines? 

{ +hide-user-agent{Netscape 6.1 (X11; I; Linux 2.4.18 i686)} }
/


{ +crunch-client-header{User-Agent:} }
/

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Comment By: Lee (ler762)
Date: 2008-08-06 03:35

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Adding either one of the following snippets to my user.action file worked
for me.

   ------ begin: cut here ---------
{ +hide-user-agent{Netscape 6.1 (X11; I; Linux 2.4.18 i686)} }
/
   ------ end  : cut here ---------
ref:
http://config.privoxy.org/user-manual/actions-file.html#HIDE-USER-AGENT


   ------ begin: cut here ---------
{ +crunch-client-header{User-Agent:} }
/
   ------ end  : cut here ---------
ref:
http://config.privoxy.org/user-manual/actions-file.html#CRUNCH-CLIENT-HEADER


But Privoxy probably isn't the best thing to use for hiding your user
agent since it can't do anything about https:// sites that you visit.  If
you really want to hide your user agent it should be done in the browser. 
For Frefox add something like

user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windoze; U; DOS 3.1;
en-US; rv:3.1)");

to your user.js
ref:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_About:config_Entries#General..2A


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