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(49 votes) Published: Jun 14, 2009 5:37 p.m. In 1 Favorites Lists Viewed 340 times
This is an egg on how to edit what a server sees your browser type to be. This is a great way to mess with people.
A little bit of an explanation: Websites look at what type of browser you are using in order to enhance your experience. Each website stores information on your computer. This information includes the name of your browser.
This is how to do it:
Step one: If you have not downloaded it yet, get Mozilla Firefox. This will not work on any other browser.
Step two: Type this in to the browser window:
about:config
Step three: Find this value:
general.useragent.extra.firefox
Step four: Double click that line. Enter in anything that you want. This will be what the server sees.
Sure, you could put in something like, FBI Proxy# 127659345,
but I am pretty sure that that is a bad idea. Now, this hack is not illegal, but will piss some people off. In fact, some servers will actually report you to your ISP and complain, if your name is that outrageous. But theoretically, there is an extra bit of security this adds. Theoretically, if a server was using your browser type to tell what type of virus to give you, this would help.
Now, this is what I did:
Instead of the server seeing something like
"firefox 3.0/3.3.0", they will see this:
Now, this is a story all about how
My life got flipped-turned upside down
And I liked to take a minute
Just sit right there
I’ll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air
In west Philadelphia born and raised
On the playground was where I spent most of my days
Chillin’ out maxin’ relaxin’ all cool
And all shootin some b-ball outside of the school
When a couple of guys
Who were up to no good
Startin making trouble in my neighborhood
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared
She said ’You’re movin’ with your auntie and uncle in Bel Air’
I begged and pleaded with her day after day
But she packed my suite case and send me on my way
She gave me a kiss and then she gave me my ticket.
I put my walkman on and said, ’I might as well kick it’.
First class, yo this is bad
Drinking orange juice out of a champagne glass.
Is this what the people of Bel-Air Living like?
Hmmmmm this might be alright.
But wait I hear there’re prissy, wine all that
Is Bel-Air the type of place they send this cool cat?
I don’t think sow
I’ll see when I get there
I hope they’re prepared for the prince of Bel-Air
Well, the plane landed and when I came out
There was a dude who looked like a cop standing there with my name out
I ain’t trying to get arrested
I just got here
I sprang with the quickness like lightening, disappeared
I whistled for a cab and when it came near
The license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror
If anything I can say this cab is rare
But I thought ’Now forget it’ - ’Yo homes to Bel Air’
I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8
And I yelled to the cabbie ’Yo homes smell ya later’
I looked at my kingdom
I was finally there
To sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel Air
Name Value
con ection keep-alive
referer http://www.ameribiz.net
ccept-language en-us,en;q=0.5
content-l ngth 0
host www.ericgiguere.com
acce t-encoding gzip,deflate
accept text/html,application/xh ml+xml,application/xml;q=0 9,*/*;q=0.8
accept-charset ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,* q=0.7
keep-alive 300
user-agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042523 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Now, this is a story all about how My life got flipped-turned upside down And I liked to take a minute Just sit right there I’ll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air In west Philadelphia born and raised On the playground was where I spent most of my days Chillin’ out maxin’ relaxin’ all cool And all shootin some b-ball outside of the school When a couple of guys Who were up to no good Startin making trouble in my neighborhood I got in one little fight and my mom got scared She said ’You’re movin’ with your auntie and uncle in Bel Air’ I begged and pleaded with her day after day But she packed my suite case and send me on my way She gave me a kiss and then she gave me my ticket. I put my walkman on and said, ’I might as well kick it’. First class, yo this is bad Drinking orange juice out of a champagne glass. Is this what the people of Bel-Air Living like? Hmmmmm this might be alright. But wait I hear there’re prissy, wine all that Is Bel-Air the type of place they send this cool cat? I don’t think sow I’ll see when I get there I hope they’re prepared for the prince of Bel-Air Well, the plane landed and when I came out There was a dude who looked like a cop standing there with my name out I ain’t trying to get arrested I just got here I sprang with the quickness like lightening, disappeared I whistled for a cab and when it came near The license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror If anything I can say this cab is rare But I thought ’Now forget it’ - ’Yo homes to Bel Air’ I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8 And I yelled to the cabbie ’Yo homes smell ya later’ I looked at my kingdom I was finally there To sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel Air
Jun 15, 2009 7:03 am - ... Even though this is common information, it is presented in such a format as to be generally acceptable to me. 4*, my good man.
Jun 15, 2009 12:58 pm - Eh, fuck you. The reason I have Ubuntu is because Vista crashed and all of the system files got corrupted. Oh, and by the way, Ubuntu is WAYYYYY better than any windows product. It has literally 70 viruses and 90% less crashes, with all of the features, and it’s completely free. YOU fail if you have Vista.
Jun 16, 2009 5:39 am - Clever Not bad, but then again. im not sure why this dont work. maybe Firefox sends some other various information to the server, and this aint really messing with server logs, kinda masking your browser, or spoofing. not illegal at all. but can get you banned from websites.
Jun 29, 2009 10:02 pm - Okay, Teejay, why do you keep saying that on all my eggs? Really, what do you think I could have done to make this better formatted? Give me a little example. And do you think there are a lot of pictures at my disposal that are on this exact subject?
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