[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#581066: Chromium reports wrong UserAgent string
Jonathan Nieder
jrnieder at gmail.com
Sat May 22 22:57:34 UTC 2010
Hi,
Lincoln de Sousa wrote:
> Looking at the web server access log, I noticed that chromium
> send the following user agent string:
>
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko)
> Chrome/5.0.375.29 Safari/533.4
>
> I don't think it is right, since I'm not using "Chrome" but "Chromium"
> browser.
Forgive me for being dense, but why is this a bug?
Maybe it would be helpful for debugging and statistics gathering to
add information about the Debian revision, like this:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.38 (Debian-5.0.375.38-r46659-2) Safari/533.4
Or maybe it would be good to fix all sites that care and just declare
that we are a newish browser, like this:
Mozilla/8.0
You can experiment with how sites react to various possibilities with
the --user-agent command-line option (which is undocumented for some
reason).
HTH,
Jonathan
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