Is User Agent Change Possible?

**Manuel Lemos** · Jul 17 '05, 07:21 AM

Re: Is User Agent Change Possible?

Hello,

On 07/21/2004 01:47 AM, Asker wrote:[color=blue]
> I heard PHP hard coded useragent in several places. It sucks, unlike Perl
> which you can enter anything. It is even worse than Wget.
>
> I wonder if PHP5 allows User Agent changes now, because it seems to add many
> header related functions. But I still did not see one yet.[/color]

What do you mean? The user agent is defined by the browser that requests
the pages. Do you mean when PHP fetches remote pages via fopen()?

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**Asker** · Jul 17 '05, 07:21 AM

Re: Is User Agent Change Possible?

> What do you mean? The user agent is defined by the browser that requests[color=blue]
> the pages. Do you mean when PHP fetches remote pages via fopen()?
>[/color]

yes, i meant that in fopen

**Anders K. Madsen** · Jul 17 '05, 07:21 AM

Re: Is User Agent Change Possible?

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 01:15:59 -0400
"Asker" <news.ispnetbil ling.com@alexa. com> wrote:
[color=blue][color=green]
> > What do you mean? The user agent is defined by the browser that
> > requests the pages. Do you mean when PHP fetches remote pages via
> > fopen()?
> >[/color]
>
> yes, i meant that in fopen
>[/color]

I'm sorry, but why do you even bother?
I mean, if it really is that important to you, write a wrapper for the
perl-thingy... Or even better... Grab the latest PHP source and edit it
yourself...

Madsen

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**Zurab Davitiani** · Jul 17 '05, 07:21 AM

Re: Is User Agent Change Possible?

Asker wrote:
[color=blue]
> yes, i meant that in fopen[/color]

You can set user_agent in php.ini.

PHP: Filesystem Functions - Manual

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php#ini.user-agent

Filesystem Functions

**Manuel Lemos** · Jul 17 '05, 07:22 AM

Re: Is User Agent Change Possible?

Hello,

On 07/21/2004 02:15 AM, Asker wrote:[color=blue][color=green]
>>What do you mean? The user agent is defined by the browser that requests
>>the pages. Do you mean when PHP fetches remote pages via fopen()?
>>[/color]
>
>
> yes, i meant that in fopen[/color]

In that case you can set it in the php.ini file. If you can't set it in
the php.ini, you need to fetch the page with fsockopen instead.

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**Virgil Green** · Jul 17 '05, 07:22 AM

Re: Is User Agent Change Possible?

I haven't investigated, so I'm just going to ask...
Am I the only one for whom every one of Anders' posts arrives blank with the
message included in an attachment as a .txt file and his PHP signature
included as an attachment in a .dat file?

- Virgil

**Anders K. Madsen** · Jul 17 '05, 07:22 AM

Re: Is User Agent Change Possible?

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:36:39 GMT
"Virgil Green" <vjg@DESPAMobsy dian.com> wrote:
[color=blue]
> I haven't investigated, so I'm just going to ask...
> Am I the only one for whom every one of Anders' posts arrives blank
> with the message included in an attachment as a .txt file and his PHP
> signature included as an attachment in a .dat file?
>[/color]

This is indeed odd... 'Cause I think most people don't have any problem
with it (people on comp.lang.ruby being less forgiving about
non-standard ways of posting).

What news-client do you use?

Oh yeah... PGP signature (not PHP) :) http://gnupg.org

Madsen

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**Chung Leong** · Jul 17 '05, 07:22 AM

Re: Is User Agent Change Possible?

"Manuel Lemos" <mlemos@acm.org > wrote in message
news:40FE73B9.8 0202@acm.org...[color=blue]
> Hello,[color=green]
> > On 07/21/2004 02:15 AM, Asker wrote:[color=darkred]
> >>What do you mean? The user agent is defined by the browser that requests
> >>the pages. Do you mean when PHP fetches remote pages via fopen()?
> >>[/color]
> >
> >
> > yes, i meant that in fopen[/color]
>
> In that case you can set it in the php.ini file. If you can't set it in
> the php.ini, you need to fetch the page with fsockopen instead.[/color]

Not entirely true. You can change the user agent with ini_set().

ini_set('user_a gent', 'Bobo the Clown');

With more recent versions of PHP you can also create a stream context for
the same purpose:

$opts = array(
'http'=>array(
'method'=>"GET" ,
'header'=>"Acce pt-language: en\r\n" .
"Cookie: foo=bobo\r\n" .
"User-Agent: Bobo the Clown\r\n"
)
);

$context = stream_context_ create($opts);
$fp = fopen($url, 'r', false, $context);

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**Virgil Green** · Jul 17 '05, 07:23 AM

Re: Is User Agent Change Possible?

"Anders K. Madsen" <madsen@lillesv in.linux.dk> wrote in message
news:2004072200 3152.0122e0a5@l apsvin...[color=blue]
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:36:39 GMT
> "Virgil Green" <vjg@DESPAMobsy dian.com> wrote:
>[color=green]
> > I haven't investigated, so I'm just going to ask...
> > Am I the only one for whom every one of Anders' posts arrives blank
> > with the message included in an attachment as a .txt file and his PHP
> > signature included as an attachment in a .dat file?
> >[/color]
>
> This is indeed odd... 'Cause I think most people don't have any problem
> with it (people on comp.lang.ruby being less forgiving about
> non-standard ways of posting).
>
> What news-client do you use?[/color]

Outlook Express... you may stop laughing now... ;-)
[color=blue]
> Oh yeah... PGP signature (not PHP) :) http://gnupg.org[/color]

Typo on my part. I meant PGP, but have typed PHP too many times for it not
to flow out naturally.

- Virgil

**Anders K. Madsen** · Jul 17 '05, 07:23 AM

Re: Is User Agent Change Possible?

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 14:51:44 GMT
"Virgil Green" <vjg@DESPAMobsy dian.com> wrote:
[color=blue]
> "Anders K. Madsen" <madsen@lillesv in.linux.dk> wrote in message
> news:2004072200 3152.0122e0a5@l apsvin...[color=green]
> > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:36:39 GMT
> > "Virgil Green" <vjg@DESPAMobsy dian.com> wrote:
> >[color=darkred]
> > > I haven't investigated, so I'm just going to ask...
> > > Am I the only one for whom every one of Anders' posts arrives
> > > blank with the message included in an attachment as a .txt file
> > > and his PHP signature included as an attachment in a .dat file?
> > >[/color]
> >
> > This is indeed odd... 'Cause I think most people don't have any
> > problem with it (people on comp.lang.ruby being less forgiving about
> > non-standard ways of posting).
> >
> > What news-client do you use?[/color]
>
> Outlook Express... you may stop laughing now... ;-)
>[/color]

Ok, I'm done. :-p
No, seriously... It's a little weird... I don't know what may cause it,
since I've never tried Outlook Express or just Outlook...

Does any other Outlook users have a comment here?
[color=blue][color=green]
> > Oh yeah... PGP signature (not PHP) :) http://gnupg.org[/color]
>
> Typo on my part. I meant PGP, but have typed PHP too many times for it
> not to flow out naturally.[/color]

Hehe, I know the feeling. :)

Best regards,
Madsen

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Anders K. Madsen --- http://lillesvin.linux.dk

"There are 10 types of people in the world.
Those who understand binary - and those who don't."

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