Re: AW: [squid-users] "Fake" of User-Agent-Informations doesn´t work

On Monday 05 May 2003 07.29, Michael Schaller wrote:

> > Note: This won't work for Javascripts accessing the
> > navigator.appName and similar objects. Such use can only be
> > addressed in the browser by denying the use of Javascript except
> > for trusted sites
>
> This means that a webpage using these functions can get the "right"
> values although my proxy is configured to fake it ?

Yes, because these pages are not using the User-Agent header, but
getting the browser type and version by other means (scripting).

JavaScript runs within the browser, and is not related to HTTP.

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