Re: Site based user-agent

> ----- "Kevin DeKorte" <kdekorte@...> wrote:
>> Dean,
>>
>> I'm not sure that this would solve the problem completely as you have
>> the initial request (prior to the streamed data) to deal with as
>> well.
>> In svn of gecko-mediaplayer I have solved the problem for the
>> apple.com site by changing the user-agent in firefox when the
>> QT version of the plugin is loaded. I have also had to work
>> around this in gnome-mplayer as well.
>
> The initial browser request doesn't affect the apple trailers, only the mplayer-plugin request is checked for user-agent.  When I set mplayerplug-in.conf as follows, the apple trailers work:
>
> user-agent=QuickTime/7.6.2 (qtver=7.6.2;os=Windows NT 5.1Service Pack 3)
>
> So if the player itself could be configured to send different user-agent strings on a per domain basis then it will be easy to fix if domains require specific user-agent strings. (e.g. apple.com)