User Agent

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# 7.9. User Agent

Some web sites tailor their HTML pages according to the browser you are using to view them. This is done to cope with differences between browsers and is done by the web server asking for the browser's "User Agent" and then comparing it against a list of known browsers. Unfortunately very few web sites recognise "Konqueror".

To overcome this problem, you can control what Konqueror reports as it's User Agent. Selecting Settings->Configure Konqueror...->User Agent or the K menu Preferences->Web Browsing->User Agent will bring up a dialog box allowing you to set the User Agent string for selected servers or domains.

Some example (and possibly useful) User Agent strings can be seen in the Login as drop down box.

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