Add user-agent header customization support to Visual Fizzler

[atifaziz]

What new or enhanced feature are you proposing?

Allow VisualFizzler to customize the User-Agent header that it uses to download a resource when using the Import From Web option from the File menu.

What goal would this enhancement help you achieve?

Some web sites serve different content based on the User-Agent header and this means that Visual Fizzler may see different HTML than when using a browser. As a result, testing a CSS selector in Visual Fizzler may give different results when the same selector is applied in a different agent. By adding an option to customize the User-Agent header, Visual Fizzler can be configured to retrieve the same HTML an arbitrary browser version.

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Originally reported on Google Code with ID 37

Reported by @atifaziz on 2009-10-19 14:38:42

[atifaziz]

A concrete example of this issue can be observed when using Import from Web in Visual Fizzler to get the HTML behind http://www.microsoft.com. The attached file shows the response, which is an HTML page with a single paragraph reading:

Your current User-Agent string appears to be from an automated process, if this is incorrect, please click this link: United States English Microsoft Homepage

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Reported by @azizatif on 2009-10-19 14:58:37

• Attachment: www-microsoft-com.html