On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 10:52 +0000, Duncan wrote: > 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. > I was just about to hit it with hexedit when this dropped into the mailbox. Thank you Duncan;
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