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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.2-Based Variant V1.1//EN"
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<!ENTITY % English "INCLUDE" > <!-- change language only here -->
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<article lang="&language;">
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<title>Browser Identification</title>
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<articleinfo>
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<authorgroup>
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<author>&Krishna.Tateneni; &Krishna.Tateneni.mail;</author>
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<!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS -->
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</authorgroup>
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<date>2003-10-12</date>
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<releaseinfo>3.2</releaseinfo>
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<keywordset>
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<keyword>KDE</keyword>
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<keyword>KControl</keyword>
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<keyword>user agent</keyword>
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<keyword>browser</keyword>
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<keyword>identification</keyword>
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</keywordset>
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</articleinfo>
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<sect1 id="user-agent">
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<title>Browser Identification</title>
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<sect2 id="user-agent-intro">
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<title>Introduction</title>
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<para>When &konqueror; connects to a web site to retrieve information,
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some basic identifying information is sent to the web site in the form
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of a <quote>User Agent</quote> header.</para>
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<para>Because of minor differences in the way that different web
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browsers function, web sites that rely too much on a single browser may
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sometimes not display as intended when viewed using another
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browser. Some web sites are smart enough to examine the contents of the
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user agent header and incorporate this information in the
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<acronym>HTML</acronym> code so that the content is displayed correctly
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regardless of the browser used.</para>
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<para>However, you may find that some web sites refuse to function
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correctly unless you are using a browser recognized as
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<quote>proper</quote> by that site. In these cases, you may find it
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necessary to fool the web site by having &konqueror; report itself to be
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another browser by means of the user agent header.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="user-agent-use">
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<title>Use</title>
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<para>In this module you can configure the
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type of browser that &konqueror; will report itself to be. You can
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control this information by web site. Usually, the list box that is
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labeled <guilabel>Site/Domain Specific Identification</guilabel> will be
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empty, so that &konqueror; will always use its default useragent
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string.</para>
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<para>You can disable the sending of a user agent entirely, by
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unchecking the <guilabel>Send identification</guilabel>
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checkbox. This may cause strange behavior on some sites, and may even
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deny you access to some websites, so disable this with caution.</para>
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<para>To configure a new agent binding, press the
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<guibutton>New...</guibutton> button. Type the name of the server or
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a domain in the text box at the top of the dialog that pops up, which
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is labeled <guilabel>When browsing the following
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site</guilabel>.</para>
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<para>Note that you can <emphasis>not</emphasis> use the wildcard
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character <token>*</token> in this text box. However, the string
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<userinput>kde.org</userinput> will match all hosts in the domain
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<systemitem>kde.org</systemitem></para>
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<para>After typing the name of the server, type in the identifying
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string in the next combo box, which is labeled <guilabel>Use the
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following identity:</guilabel>, or choose a string from the list. If
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you don't choose a string from the list, you will need to know what a
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valid string from the browser looks like. For example, you could type
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<userinput>Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0)</userinput>.</para>
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<para>In the field labeled <guilabel>Alias (description)</guilabel>
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you can enter a descriptive name for the configured binding, ⪚
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<userinput>Netscape Navigator 4.75 on Linux</userinput> for the
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useragent string <userinput>Mozilla/4.75 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14
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i686)</userinput>.</para>
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<para>You can click on an existing entry in the <guilabel>Configured
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agent bindings</guilabel> list, and then modify the contents of the
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text boxes, followed by clicking <guibutton>Change...</guibutton>.</para>
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<para>The <guibutton>Delete</guibutton> button can be used to delete
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the selected entry in the list of configured agent bindings. The
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<guibutton>Delete All</guibutton> will remove all the configured user
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agent strings. Click the <guibutton>Apply</guibutton> to take your
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changes in effect.</para>
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<para>You can use the checkboxes at the top of the screen to build a
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user agent that is uniquely yours, by choosing your own combination of
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operating system name and version, platform, processor type, and
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language.</para>
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<para>In all cases, the user agent that is being sent by default is
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displayed in bold text at the top of the page.</para>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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