opera's user agent string

[gregh2000]

Hi,

I have to use a website for work every day and it requires IE 5.0 or higher. It runs on sql or something, I have tried changing the number in the opera.ini file but it doesn't report to the site any differently, does anyone know how to make opera report itself as IE?

Thanks

[gregh2000]

I have been doing more research on this topic and I have found what the numbers are for, but even when set to "5" it still identifies itself as opera. I have been reading about a user java script. Anyone know if there is such a thing with the 770 version of opera?

found that info here:

http://www.scss.com.au/family/andrew/opera/browserids/

[gultig]

Mozilla/%s (%s; U) Opera 8.02 ~ [%s]^@^@^@^@Mozilla/%s [en] (%s; U)^@Mozilla/%%s (%%s; U) Opera %s ~ [%%s]^@^@^@Opera/%s%%s (%%s; U) ~ [%%s]^@^@^@^@Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;
MSIE %%s; %%s; U) Opera %s ~ [%%s]^@8.02

a quick look at /usr/bin/browser shows that, as a last resort, binary hacking is always an alterative. i may do this since my bank (wells fargo) refuses to work with anything but the latest version (non beta) of ie or ff.

[gregh2000]

if you figure it out let me know, I am far from knowing what I am doing with Linux and I would like to figure out how to make it detect the browser differently. I don't even know if the page that I use will even run without IE but I guess it is worth a try. Otherwise I will setup VNC on a comptuer with IE and do it that way once a VNC client comes out that works with the 770. I have seen the VNC client that is out now, I haven't tried to install it yet, but it says that it doesn't support a keyboard, but with windows xp there is a built in on screen keyboard that might work as long as you don't need to login to the comptuer.

[gultig]

I have verified that the following hack will allow usage of online.wellsfargo.com by replacing the word Opera with Blank in the user-agent string.

WARNING:

Only use this code on 2.2005.45-8. It will only work if you are root. I accept no responsibility if you brick your device. You have been warned.
echo -n "Blank" | dd conv=notrunc of=/usr/bin/browser bs=1 seek=4181163

[anson]

That's one approach :-)

On Windows (and mac and linux, I suppose) Opera reads a ua.ini file that allows overriding the user agent string in a better way than the network preference setting, which still has the word "Opera" in the string. For example:

[Identity]
slate.com=5

would use a very IE like agent string for slate.com. I created my own ua.ini file for various sites but I can't get the 770's Opera implementation to read it; placed the file in the .opera folder but nada. I also tried adding the section to opera.ini but also no luck.

Anyone know if this form of user agent override is supported by 770's Opera implementation?

[Reggie]

In a site that checks and displays the browser's agent string, here's what's displayed for the 770:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; ; Linux armv5tejl; U) Opera 8.02 [en] N770/SU-18

[gultig]

In a site that checks and displays the browser's agent string, here's what's displayed for the 770:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; ; Linux armv5tejl; U) Opera 8.02 [en] N770/SU-18
yep. and even though for the most part it's an ie string, some sites filter if they see the word opera anywhere.

[fpp]

This is an old thread, but for the sake of completeness in case anyone stumbles upon it through a search (like I just did) :

This is easily solved used PRIVOXY as a local proxy on the 770 : see the HOWTO on the ITT Wiki.