Re: [LUG] Faking http headers

[Robin Cornelius <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 24 May 2003 7:15 pm, trewornan wrote:
> For information:
>
> You can change the useragent on mozilla by finding the
> directory ~/.mozilla/username/randomstring.slt and
> adding a line to the user.js file (create it if it
> doesn't exist).
>
> user_agent("general.useragent.override",
> "desired-user-agent-string");
>
> The original point of this was to try to get into my
> online bank account but the Nat West Bank website
> still won't work - ho hum.
>
> It's supposed to work with Netscape but their install
> and download program keeps stalling.
>
> ps. this website won't work with konqueror either
> (even with a fake user agent)
>
> Mark

Hi Mark,

I can connect to Natwest (online banking) with konqueor 3.1.0 it works ok. I 
have set my user agent to be "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 
5.0)" only for the domain www.nwolb.com.

Hope this helps

Robin



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