Talk:User-Agent header/Archive 1
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Bad English
The sentence "Spam bots and Web scrapers often use fake user agents. For example, the Android browser identifies itself as Safari in order to aid compatibility[4]." implies that the Android browser is a 'Spam bot' or 'Web scraper.' The phrase should be changed or moved to make it more clear to the reader, and to eliminate any unintended implications. 71.206.27.210 (talk) 22:42, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
Safari implementation
Small point: . "...Safari implemented systems whereby the user could select a false User-Agent string to send"
hmmm..
open Terminal defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1 then select from the debug menu.
It's not an option available by default or one Apple actively puts forward to consumers, it's a 'debugging' option, so although what you say is correct it is misleadingly weighted in this context.
An example of a Macintosh browser that offers/invites the user to change the User-Agent string through regular (non-debug) preferences would be iCab, and which as far as I can recall from testing on my own website logs doesn't append iCab to the end of the string either.
Opera 9 Preview 2 - I don't believe the user agent string has changed, it still reads Opera 9, etc. Someone want to confirm and add this? Preview 2 was released on Feb 7, 2006