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Re: Changing user agent on eww [OT]
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Trent W. Buck |
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Re: Changing user agent on eww [OT] |
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Fri, 24 Jan 2014 10:52:29 +1100 |
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Rüdiger Sonderfeld <address@hidden> writes:
> On Saturday 18 January 2014 18:40:02 Vibhav Pant wrote:
>> Is it possible to change the user agent for fetching pages on eww (something
>> like a variable or a command)? --
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> Kinda, eww uses url.el to fetch webpages. Url.el has no direct
> variable to set the User-agent. But if you set `url-privacy-level' to
> `paranoid' no User- agent is sent at all.
I used to do that, until Wikipedia (and her sister projects) started
returning an empty page if UA wasn't set, on the theory that you must be
a really inept leecher -- so inept you didn't start with wget or curl.
Hmm... I wonder if https://panopticlick.eff.org/ rates "no UA" as being
*more* identifiable than spoofing it to something commonplace? :-)
- Changing user agent on eww, Vibhav Pant, 2014/01/18
- Re: Changing user agent on eww, Rüdiger Sonderfeld, 2014/01/18
- Re: Changing user agent on eww, Vibhav Pant, 2014/01/18
- Re: Changing user agent on eww [OT],
Trent W. Buck <=
- Re: Changing user agent on eww [OT], Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/23
- Re: Changing user agent on eww [OT], chad, 2014/01/23
- Re: Changing user agent on eww [OT], Richard Stallman, 2014/01/24
- Re: Changing user agent on eww [OT], Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/24
- Re: Changing user agent on eww [OT], Richard Stallman, 2014/01/25
- Re: Changing user agent on eww [OT], Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/25
- Re: Changing user agent on eww [OT], Simon Leinen, 2014/01/26
- Re: Changing user agent on eww [OT], Yuri Khan, 2014/01/26