Opera 9.22-655(.1) - Spoof UserAgent?

Robt. W. Fletcher Jr · External Since: Jun 02, 2004 Posts: 260

1. I started Opera w/ an empty perssonaldir.

2. I did opera:config and set Spoof UserAgent to 4.

3. I stoped Opera

4. I restarted Opera went to http://www.nytimes.com

5. When I looked at its' Sites preferences and it said "Identify as
Internet Explorer"?

6. Opera's override_downloaded.ini file does not mention 'nytimes'.

7. The output of opera:config also showed an option called 'Script
Spoof' -- this option is not documented at
http://www.opera.com/support/usingopera/operaini/

Somthing doesn't see quite right? A grep of the opera6.ini file shows
the value to be 4; opera:config shows the value to 3. Clearly Opera is
disregarding the 4 (mask) and always using 3.

I must be missing something.

Comments?

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Robt. W. Fletcher Jr · External Since: Jun 02, 2004 Posts: 260

"Robt. W. Fletcher Jr" <me RemoveThis @wa.us> writes:

> Comments?

Bug report generated, #276255

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Robt. W. Fletcher Jr · External Since: Jun 02, 2004 Posts: 260

"Robt. W. Fletcher Jr" <me.TakeThisOut@wa.us> writes:

> 1. I started Opera w/ an empty perssonaldir.
>
> 2. I did opera:config and set Spoof UserAgent to 4.
>
> 3. I stopped Opera
>
> 4. I restarted Opera went to http://www.nytimes.com
>
> 5. When I looked at its' Sites preferences, it said "Identify as
> Internet Explorer"?
>
> 6. Opera's override_downloaded.ini file does not mention 'nytimes'.
>
> 7. The output of opera:config also showed an option called 'Script
> Spoof' -- this option is not documented at
> http://www.opera.com/support/usingopera/operaini/
>
> Something doesn't see quite right? A grep of the opera6.ini file
> shows the value to be 4; opera:config shows the value to 3. Clearly
> Opera is disregarding the 4 (mask) and always using 3.
>
> I must be missing something.
>
> Comments?

Certainly.

I don't know whether I mis-read the documentation or they changed it
but 4 or 5 can only be set via Edit site preferences i.e. not
globally. I would have thought that instead of changing 4 or 5 to 3,
they would have chanaged it to 1, but what do I know. That resolves
the first part of my question.

I still don't see 'Script Spoof' documented. I consider the bug-report
still open.

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Rijk van Geijtenbeek · External Since: Jun 18, 2006 Posts: 20

On Sun, 05 Aug 2007 01:05:07 +0200, Robt. W. Fletcher Jr <me.RemoveThis@wa.us> wrote:

> "Robt. W. Fletcher Jr" <me.RemoveThis@wa.us> writes:
>
>> 1. I started Opera w/ an empty perssonaldir.
>>
>> 2. I did opera:config and set Spoof UserAgent to 4.
>>
>> 3. I stopped Opera
>>
>> 4. I restarted Opera went to http://www.nytimes.com
>>
>> 5. When I looked at its' Sites preferences, it said "Identify as
>> Internet Explorer"?
>>
>> 6. Opera's override_downloaded.ini file does not mention 'nytimes'.
>>
>> 7. The output of opera:config also showed an option called 'Script
>> Spoof' -- this option is not documented at
>> http://www.opera.com/support/usingopera/operaini/
>>
>> Something doesn't see quite right? A grep of the opera6.ini file
>> shows the value to be 4; opera:config shows the value to 3. Clearly
>> Opera is disregarding the 4 (mask) and always using 3.
>>
>> I must be missing something.
>>
>> Comments?
>
> Certainly.
>
> I don't know whether I mis-read the documentation or they changed it
> but 4 or 5 can only be set via Edit site preferences i.e. not
> globally.

Right.

> I would have thought that instead of changing 4 or 5 to 3,
> they would have chanaged it to 1, but what do I know.

Buglet.

> That resolves
> the first part of my question.
>
> I still don't see 'Script Spoof' documented. I consider the bug-report
> still open.

'Script spoof' is about the navigator.userAgent value reported by
javascript. The documentation will be updated soon, and the buglet will be
fixed. Thanks for the report.

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