Dear Lazyweb: <\/p>\n
Is there a hack out there which will make my browser masquerade as a different one? I.e: Every single time Safari sends an HTTP request to a server, it self identifies as “SAFARI”. This causes some pages to reject it saying, for example, “You need to use Netscape! Download it here!”. We all know that this drives me freakin’ nuts. I would like to have a way to tell safari (or firefox, or whatever the cool kids are using these days) to pretend that it’s netscape, for that one request, or at that one site. I understand that this opens the possibility that some non-standard crap will fail. I’m okay with this. I just don’t want to download goddamn Nutscape again.<\/p>\n
For extra credit, make it a daemon that sits at the network level and translates requests on the fly. That way it’s browser independent. <\/p>\n
Does this exist? I’m willing to pay, like, $20 for it …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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