[SOLVED] What do I have to put in my agent string for this site to recognise me as a Slackware user?

jamison20000e · 03-20-2023, 05:25 PM

Not * against operating systems, evolution? Stupidity will likely tell you what to do in microcoughed$ &we!

vtel57 · 05-10-2023, 10:43 AM

Testing...

vtel57 · 05-10-2023, 01:59 PM

2nd Test...

vtel57 · 05-11-2023, 05:47 AM

Test again... DAMMIT FF 113 has been causing me ISSUES!

Current useragent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Slackware Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/113.0

teckk · 05-11-2023, 08:31 AM

Shouldn't a Slack user agent look like:

Code:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Slackware; Linux x86_64; rv:113.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/113.0"

https://www.whatismybrowser.com/guid...-agent/firefox

teckk · 05-11-2023, 08:38 AM

In a terminal

Code:

ncat -klp 8100 -v

Open web browser or script to http://127.0.0.1:8100

Read header in terminal. Rinse and repeat.

onebuck · 05-11-2023, 08:40 AM

Hi,

Quote:

Originally Posted by vtel57

Test again... DAMMIT FF 113 has been causing me ISSUES!

Current useragent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/113.0

I see a Slackware icon on your post(s). My user agent;

Quote:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:110.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/ 113.0 Slackware 15.0

Hope this helps.

teckk · 05-11-2023, 08:47 AM

vtel57, You are LinuxSlackware in my browser also. Same as onebuck.

https://0x0.st/HNXN.png

vtel57 · 05-11-2023, 09:06 AM

A Mod from the Mozilla Support Group warned me that the "rv" in the useragents were LOCKED at rv:109.0 nowadays. Here's what he said:

Quote:

Note that for Firefox 11x versions (110-119) the rv segment has been frozen to rv:109 in case a website mistakenly parse this as IE 11.

- 1805967 - Freeze `rv:` segment in the User Agent string to `rv:109.0` to avoid erroneous IE11 detection

vtel57 · 05-11-2023, 09:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by teckk

Shouldn't a Slack user agent look like:

Code:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Slackware Linux x86_64; rv:113.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/113.0"

https://www.whatismybrowser.com/guid...-agent/firefox

Yes, fixed my post above. Sorry 'bout that mix up.

Proper useragent for me currently is:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Slackware Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/113.0

vtel57 · 05-11-2023, 12:44 PM

Hey, @teckk... kinda' weird, but your profile says you're running Arch Linux, but your icon in your posts says you're using MacOS.

teckk · 05-11-2023, 01:00 PM

I am using arch, with my own qtwebengine web browser. I have my default user agent in "My Browser" set to this unless I change it.

Code:

QMenu *agentMenu = new QMenu(tr("&Agent"));
//iPhone 16 chrome 108
QAction *iphoneAction1 = agentMenu->addAction(tr("&iPhone 16, Chrome 108"));
connect(iphoneAction1, &QAction::triggered, [this]() {
    QWebEngineProfile::defaultProfile()->setHttpUserAgent("Mozilla/5.0 "
    "(iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 "
    "(KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/108.0.5359.112 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1");
});

And LQ says that's a mac.

And I'm about due to update my user agents again.

I've been asked about that before. Having an iphone user agent gets you the lightest page from a server that they have. That is if the sever delivers different source depending on your user agent. A lot a sites do. I keep scripts and images off in the web browser unless I have to turn them on. So, you get a dillo like experience, but with working frames and a proper page layout. In fact I like doing that better than using dillo.

I keep about a dozen user agents available to the browser, for different things. Browsers like palemoon, and probably firefox let you specify user agent for url or domain. I change it manually with a drop down menu whenever I want to.

Let me click, and viola, I'm arch.

vtel57 · 05-11-2023, 01:10 PM

HAHA! Voila! Magic.

Always good to have options.

teckk · 05-11-2023, 01:26 PM

Newegg is a good example for switching user agents. (Not trying to advertise, it is a script busy web site)

That site has become so heavy and slow, using a desktop user agent. I prefer to report to be an iPhone. You'll get much lighter, less busy, lower bandwidth pages, that are faster loading, faster browsing, and matter of opinion, easier to navigate.

Let me take a couple of screenshots.

Let me just do a simple search for "desktop internal hardrives" with an iphone user agent.
https://0x0.st/HN8F.png
Simple small page, loads almost instantly, without scripts grinding for 10 seconds.

The drop downs are nice and simple.
https://0x0.st/HN8C.png

Pages are small, light and load almost instantly.
https://0x0.st/HNKr.png

That's why I do that. Just another tool to use to make ones life better.

Compare that sometime, with a big heavy site like newegg.

vtel57 · 05-11-2023, 02:25 PM

Neat trick, actually.