From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: trentbuck@gmail.com (Trent W. Buck) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changing user agent on eww [OT] Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 10:52:29 +1100 Message-ID: <87ob32mf2a.fsf_-_@gmail.com> References: <16166511.vzeQlYYo3r@descartes> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390521170 29297 80.91.229.3 (23 Jan 2014 23:52:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 23:52:50 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 24 00:52:58 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W6U4w-00081Q-2r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 00:52:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43767 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6U4v-0008AF-Lz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 18:52:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44643) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6U4n-0008A4-Fq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 18:52:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6U4i-0005Ct-0x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 18:52:49 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:59201) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6U4h-0005CX-Qp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 18:52:43 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W6U4g-0007wF-SF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 00:52:42 +0100 Original-Received: from ppp118-209-99-230.lns20.mel4.internode.on.net ([118.209.99.230]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 00:52:42 +0100 Original-Received: from trentbuck by ppp118-209-99-230.lns20.mel4.internode.on.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 00:52:42 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp118-209-99-230.lns20.mel4.internode.on.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:168988 Archived-At: Rüdiger Sonderfeld 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? :-)