- From: Steve Barnes <devspb@landmark.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 16:46:29 -0500
- To: "'Thanh Nguyen'" <thnguyen@Adobe.COM>
- Cc: "'www-lib@w3.org'" <www-lib@w3.org>
Thanh, Refer to the following doc for a more complete discussion.. Tip search the doc for user-agent.. http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Protocols/HTTP/1.1/draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-07.txt This is the http spec and is good enough to understand the http request header that you must initialize to act like a browser (aka your web bot).. For the actual client name that MS IE or netscape use in this field to fool the the server, I have not yet dumpped a header to check... I'll try to find time soon to do so.. In the meantime..DOES ANYONE KNOW OFFHAND WHAT HE MUST USE FOR EITHER MSIE OR NAVIGATOR????? ---------- From: Thanh Nguyen[SMTP:thnguyen@Adobe.COM] Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 1996 7:18 AM To: Steve Barnes Subject: RE: <Question> User-Agent Thank you for your help. My next question is how do I "fake" as a browser ? What do I need to put in my header so that the web site can't tell. I have tried many cases already. I tried "IE 3.0", "Internet Explore 3.0" and "Netscape 3.0" but I haven't hit the "jackpot" yet. Any hint from you? Once again, thank you for your help. I am looking forward to your reply. Thanh Nguyen. (206)470-7290 thnguyen@adobe.com >Thanh, >Unfortunately, many web developers recognize the fact that both MS and >Netscape for example deal with HTML tags differently. For this reason, >many web sites are developed to first check on the browser accessing the >site and build output HTML according to browser's capabilities.. > >I know this is a problem for what you are doing, but thuis is the real world. > >If you are persistent to crack the problem and are only interested in >getting consistent data, you can fool the web site into thinking that you >are a broswer of a particular type.. You do this in the http header that >you send the server.. > >Hope this helps. >Steve Barnes :{) > >---------- >From: Thanh Nguyen[SMTP:thnguyen@Adobe.COM] >Sent: Monday, December 02, 1996 8:57 AM >To: www-lib@w3.org >Subject: <Question> User-Agent > >Hi, > >I have an app that can download contents from the web. I've noticed that >for some sites, I recieve different HTML source files as it would in >Netscape or Internet Explore. > >My guess is that somehow the server which I request the contents from sends >different file to its clients depending on the name of the User-Agent. > >I wonder if this is true. If this is the case, what the User-Agent should >I use to recieve the same HTML file as in Netscape or Internet Explore. > >Any feed back is greatly appreciated. Thanks. > >Thanh Nguyen >(206)470-7290 >thnguyen@adobe.com
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