On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 21:30:47 +0100 Aaron Digulla <digulla@hepe.com> wrote:
Am 19.12.18 um 21:16 schrieb Dave Howorth:
I've just noticed that when Firefox on my Leap 15.0 system, which currently says it is 60.3.0esr (64-bit) in the Help/About, tells web servers that it requests pages from that it is
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0"
Why does it lie about its version number?
That depends what you mean by "lying".
"Mozilla/5.0" is like an ancient relic which is cherished by software used by web designers and some web servers. Kind of a baseline for "not IE".
The thing you're looking for is "rv:60.0" and "Firefox/60.0". That's the "real" version if anyone cares.
That's my point - it isn't. It's 60.3.0
Note: Chrome and in fact every WebKit based browser also sends "Mozilla/5.0".
Regards,
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