From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Thu Feb 6 18:24:25 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93FF123328D for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2020 18:24:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from truckman@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.freebsd.org (smtp.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::24b:4]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "smtp.freebsd.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 48D6K53Mdcz4PDp; Thu, 6 Feb 2020 18:24:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from truckman@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mousie.catspoiler.org (unknown [76.212.85.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: truckman) by smtp.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 08B1428048; Thu, 6 Feb 2020 18:24:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from truckman@FreeBSD.org) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 10:24:22 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis Subject: Re: xterm-353 To: Thomas Mueller cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <202002060933.0169X85o042518@gw.catspoiler.org> Message-ID: References: <20200202103600.1959de17@dismail.de> <20200202154227.GB1309@albert.catwhisker.org> <20200202121118.71446c54@dismail.de> <20200202123845.46fc2d8b@dismail.de> <20200202185446.GB60645@server.rulingia.com> <20200202205050.GA2182@squirrel.exwg.net> <600545092.3036828.1580684357864.JavaMail.zimbra@his.com> <20200203075041.GA2321@squirrel.exwg.net> <5e3957d5.1c69fb81.a3f10.6cedSMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING@mx.google.com> <535a5742.1c69fb81.21fce.7f8bSMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING@mx.google.com> <202002060933.0169X85o042518@gw.catspoiler.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Content-Disposition: INLINE X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 18:24:25 -0000 On 6 Feb, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> Kevin Oberman writes: >> > > Where would I find User Agent Switcher by Linder? Would it be >> > > on a Mozilla site, and would it work with SeaMonkey? > >> > > Would the several Firefox or SeaMonkey extensions have similar >> > > functionality? > >> > It's available through Firefox from about:addons. It is the one by >> > Linder, one of at eat three extensions of the same name. I don't >> > know about SeaMonkey. Does it support the extension interface like >> > Firefox? If so, it will probably work. You might also check the >> > website at http://mybrowseraddon.com/useragent-switcher.html > >> Seamonkey - which was my default browser until it was no longer >> updated - came with this ability built in. The only problem was >> the list of alternate identities was vintage, like, 2000 with no way >> (that I knew of) to change it. > > >> Respectfully, > > >> Robert Huff > > I went to seamonkey-project.org website a few months ago, saw it was > still being developed, not dead, not lame-duck. > > I defined a separate profile, named "chase", where I went to > about:config, defined general.useragent.override (not sure if I > remembered that perfectly) to be the regular user agent string but > with "SeaMonkey" removed. > > Then the web server recognized the browser as Firefox. I don't see > what's so bad about including "SeaMonkey", but that's how the web > server software works: buggy, or maybe the bug is in the head of that > software developer and/or webmasters who continue to use that web > server software even after being informed about the bug. I use Firefox. In my case, the server was upset that I wasn't running my browser on Windows or Mac. I changed the user agent string to tell the server that I was running the latest Firefox on Windows 2000, which made it happy. I tried for Windows 98, but couldn't get that to work.