Bug 7503

Summary:	Midori reports the wrong user agent - pretends to be OSX Safari
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	claire robinson <eeeemail>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Cesar Vargas <cvargas>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://superuser.com/questions/471988/why-does-midori-on-fedora-linux-pretend-to-be-safari-on-mac-os-x
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	midori	CVE:
Status comment:

Description claire robinson 2012-09-17 13:37:46 CEST

I included a link to the solution

http://superuser.com/questions/471988/why-does-midori-on-fedora-linux-pretend-to-be-safari-on-mac-os-x

Midori user agent is reported as:

"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-gb) AppleWebKit/535+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0 Safari/535.22+ Midori/0.4"

It apparently stems from being set to 'Automatic' instead of 'Midori'

I'm not sure if it's a good idea to change it or not but thought it worth reporting.


Copied from the link..

Midori identifies as OS X Safari when set to Automatic. Choose Midori to override it.

From midori/midori-websettings.h:

typedef enum
{
    MIDORI_IDENT_MIDORI /* Automatic */,
    MIDORI_IDENT_GENUINE /* Midori */,
    MIDORI_IDENT_SAFARI,
    // etc.
} MidoriIdentity;



midori/midori-websettings.c:

switch (identify_as)
{
case MIDORI_IDENT_GENUINE:
    return g_strdup_printf ("Mozilla/5.0 (%s %s) AppleWebKit/%d.%d+ %s",
        platform, os, webcore_major, webcore_minor, appname);
case MIDORI_IDENT_MIDORI:
case MIDORI_IDENT_SAFARI:
    g_object_set (web_settings, "enable-site-specific-quirks", TRUE, NULL);
    return g_strdup_printf ("Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; %s) "
        "AppleWebKit/%d+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0 Safari/%d.%d+ %s",
        lang, webcore_major, webcore_major, webcore_minor, appname);
// etc.

Comment 1 claire robinson 2012-09-17 13:43:28 CEST

The workaround:

Go to Preferences > Network > Identify As, and choose Midori

It then identifies as:

"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux) AppleWebKit/535.22+ Midori/0.4"

Manuel Hiebel 2012-09-19 23:49:46 CEST

Assignee: bugsquad => cvargas

Comment 2 Manuel Hiebel 2013-10-22 12:18:46 CEST

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Comment 3 claire robinson 2013-10-24 08:33:21 CEST

Seems fixed in mga3:

"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux) AppleWebKit/537.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.133 Safari/537.6 Midori/0.4"

Comment 4 Manuel Hiebel 2013-10-24 23:39:53 CEST

closing them as I guess nobody will fix it in mga2, thanks

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD