User-agent string changes

Re:User-agent string changes by lclarkmichalek on Saturday November 22, 2014 @10:47AM (#8645759)

But what UA did Mosaic use?

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Re:User-agent string changes by acdha on Saturday November 22, 2014 @12:36PM (#8646078)

Here's what the current Mosaic-CK (http://www.floodgap.com/retrotech/machten/mosaic/) uses:

NCSA_Mosaic/2.7ck9 (X11;Darwin 14.0.0 x86_64) libwww/2.12 modified

Homebrew users should be able it install it on OS X easily:

brew install mistydemeo/formulae/mosaic-ck

(https://github.com/mistydemeo/homebrew-formulae/blob/master/...)

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Re:User-agent string changes by teddyh on Saturday November 22, 2014 @12:20PM (#8646026)

I actually have a working binary here…

User-agent: NCSA_Mosaic/2.7b6 (X11;Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae i686) libwww/2.12 modified

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Re:User-agent string changes by lifthrasiir on Saturday November 22, 2014 @10:58AM (#8645799)

"NCSA Mosaic/#.# (platform)" or "NCSA_Mosaic/#.# (platform)", apparently.

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Re:User-agent string changes by WorldWideWayne on Saturday November 22, 2014 @10:56AM (#8645790)

Looks like they used something along the lines of "NCSA Mosaic V# (OS/Machine info)".

I'm wondering if the last one listed on this page is correct though:

    NCSA Mosaic/1.0 (compatible; NCSA Mosaic; AmigaOS 5.9; FuckYou ver.0.9.3)

From http://www.webuseragents.com/browser/ncsa-mosaic/ncsa-mosaic...

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Re:User-agent string changes by TazeTSchnitzel on Saturday November 22, 2014 @10:59AM (#8645802)

I think "FuckYou ver.0.9.3" is some obscure (possibly joke) browser claiming NCSA Mosaic/1.0 compatibility, note the "compatible;", like IE pretends to be Mozilla. That specific string is only found on webuseragents.com:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=FuckYou%200.9.3#...

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