From: trentbuck@gmail.com (Trent W. Buck)
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Changing user agent on eww [OT]
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 10:52:29 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ob32mf2a.fsf_-_@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 16166511.vzeQlYYo3r@descartes
Rüdiger Sonderfeld <ruediger@c-plusplus.de> 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)? --
>
> 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? :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-23 23:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-18 13:10 Changing user agent on eww Vibhav Pant
2014-01-18 14:16 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2014-01-18 17:02 ` Vibhav Pant
2014-01-23 23:52 ` Trent W. Buck [this message]
2014-01-24 1:50 ` Changing user agent on eww [OT] Stefan Monnier
2014-01-24 4:27 ` chad
2014-01-24 14:55 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-24 16:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-25 13:27 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-25 21:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-26 13:47 ` Simon Leinen
2014-01-26 14:35 ` Yuri Khan
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