https://sourceforge.net/p/vimprobable/wiki/UserAgent/Recent changes to UserAgentenThu, 26 Jun 2014 15:06:19 -0000https://sourceforge.net/p/vimprobable/wiki/UserAgent/<div class="markdown_content"><h1 id="user-agent">User Agent</h1> <p>Vimprobable's default user agent string is </p> <div class="codehilite"><pre><span class="n">Vimprobable</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">?/</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">9</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="err">\</span><span class="p">.[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">9</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="err">\</span><span class="p">.[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">9</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="err">\</span><span class="p">.[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">9</span><span class="p">]</span> </pre></div> <p>Unfortunately, there are still websites using whitelists of known user agent strings to detemine browser capabilities (as if it was still 1998). These sites will usually not be happy with Vimprobable. You can change the user agent string in <code>config.h</code> or using the set comment (Vimprobable2): </p> <div class="codehilite"><pre><span class="o">:</span><span class="n">set</span> <span class="n">useragent</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">...</span> </pre></div> <h2 id="why-not-a-mozilla-style-user-agent">Why not a Mozilla style User Agent?</h2> <p>This "industry standard" consists of system information like the user's operating system, exact version of the rendering engine and so on. Since we only distribute portable source code, we cannot know what these values will be for everyone. For your own custom version, you can of course define such a string yourself. </p></div>Thu, 26 Jun 2014 15:06:19 -0000https://sourceforge.net37417f0d6ac12eeff90fb9ebc66bcbe791460d21