Clunk Werclick <clunk.wercl...@wibblywobblyteapot.co.uk> posted 1248861297.7095.1.ca...@testicle, excerpted below, on Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:54:57 +0100:
> Is it possible to change the user agent string at all or withhold it? I > don't want it in my posts for privacy reasons but can't find an option > to kill it? > > User-Agent: Pan/0.132 (Waxed in Black) Sure, but as with a number of other pan options, it's apparently one of those settings Gnome folks like to think is too complicated for a normal user, so it's not exposed in the GUI, only in the config file. All pan's config and data is stored in its data dir, ~/.pan2/ by default. The setting in question appears in the preferences.xml file. Search for "user-agent" and you should find it. Set that false and you should be in business. =:^) (That's for 0.133 anyway, but AFAIK it has been there for awhile. Do note that unpatched 0.132 had a security vuln a bit over a year ago. 0.133 fixed that and a few other things, but your distribution, assuming that's how you got your pan, may have integrated the patch into 0.132.) As pan is open source, you can of course download the sources, grep for that string (or just "Waxed" should find it), change it as desired, and recompile. However, it doesn't appear there's a non-rebuilding user exposed setting, even in the config file, for that, just to toggle the header on and off. Or, if you prefer, the string is also exposed in the binary (at least as compiled for amd64), so with a hex editor it'd be no problem to directly edit it there, taking all the usual precautions when directly editing a binary file, of course. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
