Re: Netsaint emulate Mozilla

Dear Sir,

I am writing to thank you for your letter, apologise for the belated
response and say that I think you have two alternatives,

On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 02:34:36PM -0700, Justin Pratt wrote:
> Hello,
> some of the sites I would like to monitor have checks in place that look for IE or Mozilla and redirect you to an error message if neither is found.
> is there any way to modify the check_http script to make it look like IE or mozilla, or have any of you fine folks found a way around this issue?
> BTW: modifying the source code on the web site is the last thing we want to do..
> thanks,

Yep. Don't modify your web server pages.

You could 

1 patch the source of check_http.c

Here's the bit you want to 'fix'
pc09011> grep -i -3 agent check_http.c

                        }
                }

                /* send user agent */
                sprintf (buffer,

"User-Agent: check_http/%s (netsaint-plugins %s)\r\n",
                                                 clean_revstring
(REVISION), PACKAGE_VERSION);

You need to understand the format of the 'user-agent' string: a complete
guess would be replacing 'check_http' with 'Mozilla' but you will
almost certainly need to set the version string also.

Try this

sprintf(buffer, "User-Agent: Mozilla/x.y");

 where x.y are whatever recent Mozillas send.


2 Use a different way of monitoring your web server eg Perl with the LWP
module. 

The LWP::UserAgent constructor lets you set the user-agent string. I set
mine to 

use constant AGENT      => 'Mozilla/4.7' ;

> 
> Justin
>

HTH,

Yours sincerely. 

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