Is User Agent Change Possible?

[Asker]

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.

[Manuel Lemos]

Hello,

On 07/21/2004 01:47 AM, Asker wrote:

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.

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]

> 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()?

yes, i meant that in fopen

[Anders K. Madsen]

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 01:15:59 -0400
"Asker" <ne************ ********@alexa. com> wrote:

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()?

yes, i meant that in fopen

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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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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[Zurab Davitiani]

Asker wrote:

yes, i meant that in fopen

You can set user_agent in php.ini.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.fil...ini.user-agent

[Manuel Lemos]

Hello,

On 07/21/2004 02:15 AM, Asker wrote:

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()?

yes, i meant that in fopen

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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Regards,
Manuel Lemos

PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP
http://www.phpclasses.org/

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http://www.meta-language.net/metastorage.html

[Virgil 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?

- Virgil

[Anders K. Madsen]

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:36:39 GMT
"Virgil Green" <vj*@DESPAMobsy dian.com> wrote:

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?

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

--
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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[Chung Leong]

"Manuel Lemos" <ml****@acm.org > wrote in message
news:40******** ****@acm.org...

Hello,

On 07/21/2004 02:15 AM, Asker wrote:

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()?

yes, i meant that in fopen

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.

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);
--
Obey the Clown - http://www.conradish.net/bobo/

[Virgil Green]

"Anders K. Madsen" <ma****@lillesv in.linux.dk> wrote in message
news:2004072200 3152.0122e0a5@l apsvin...

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:36:39 GMT
"Virgil Green" <vj*@DESPAMobsy dian.com> wrote:

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?

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?

Outlook Express... you may stop laughing now... ;-)
Oh yeah... PGP signature (not PHP) :) http://gnupg.org

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

- Virgil