[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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