Firefox
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firefox extended settings
You can find all firefox settings if you surf to about:config
masquerading as Internet Explorer
Browsers identify themselves when they request web pages. Some web pages will only work if the browser states it is an Internet Explorer. To make your FireFox pretend it is an InterNet Explorer, surf to about:config and add a key/value pair
general.useragent.override = Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)
- Note
You can find out the information transmitted by your browser to the web server using netcat. Open a console and start netcat listening on port 80 on your local computer:
# netcat -l -p 80
Then start firefox, disable any Proxy (select Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Network -> Settings -> No proxy) and surf to http://localhost. You will see some output on your console like this:
GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110920 SUSE/3.6.23-0.2.1 Firefox/3.6.23 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 115 Connection: keep-alive
This is how firefox talks with a web server!
