[SOLVED] spoofing the user agent string through squid

nass · 11-07-2011, 05:14 AM

Hello everyone,
there are a few sites that STILL defy freedom and only allow some of all (!) of their functionality to Internet Explorer.
for me these sites are:

-my ISP-provided modem (!!!!!)
-my ebank account (crap!)

I could use the 'user agent' plugin for firefox in all my computers,
OR i could tamper with my slackware router

and alter squid.conf.

I googled but it didn't help much. Do you have some good link for a tutorial? Has anyone done it?

thank you for your help
nass

bathory · 11-07-2011, 07:53 AM

Well, this depends on squid version.
For 2.5-3.1 you can use just header_replace:

Code:

header_replace  User-Agent  Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; Trident/5.0)

For recent 3.1+ you should change the above, to:

Code:

request_header_access User-Agent deny all
request_header_replace User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; Trident/5.0)

Regards

nass · 11-07-2011, 07:59 AM

thank you for your reply,
i'm running squid version from slackbuilds for slack13.37 (so it's 3.1.12).
may I also ask if I can find the standard user agent strings somewhere?

and also, ideally, i'd like to only spoof the user agent string in these specific websites. not everywhere..
is there a conditional request_header_access clause?

nass · 11-07-2011, 08:03 AM

scratch the Q about ACL's its doable, from the standard clause , i'm reading the squid reference here

bathory · 11-07-2011, 08:23 AM

Quote:

may I also ask if I can find the standard user agent strings somewhere?

Have a look here