Chode Posted April 21, 2005 Share Posted April 21, 2005 A long lasting problem that Opera has faced is with sites which intentionall blacklist Opera. The workaround that Opera came up with was been able to change the identity of your browser so that sites would read that you were using an altogether different browser, but these modified Identification Strings still had Opera on the end of them, e.g. Mozilla/4.78 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Opera 8.0 With some simple code, sites can still tell that Opera is been used. For example, Hotmail will intentionally send Opera borked code so that parts of their website will not work (emptying junk mail). And UBISoft's forums completely blacklisting Opera. Thanks to a new system in Opera 8 (final, and some of the late betas) this can no longer be used. First, you need to find your UA.INI (under your profile folder, either under documents and settings or your Opera installation folder). Make sure Opera is closed, then inside this file add onto the end: hotmail.msn.com=4 save, close, reopen Opera. What this does is forces hotmail.msn.com to recognise you are using Browser Identity 4. Opera has 5 such identites: 1-Opera/8.0 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)2-Mozilla/4.78 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Opera 8.0 3-Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; en) Opera 4-Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 5-Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; en) Take note that identities 4 and 5 no longer contain Opera in their string. Now it is difficult/near impossible for sites to blacklist Opera entirely :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red. Posted April 21, 2005 Share Posted April 21, 2005 nice! thanks, i'll try this when i get home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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