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This is entirely pointless if you have an iPhone. However, if you’re locked into a Sprint contract until next October, sometimes it’s nice to see how the other side lives. The iPhone redirects RSS requests through Curious as to what I was missing, I grepped MG’s logs for iPhone browser user agent strings (we’re well-read in the Bay Area, it appears) and found some. So I made a modified attempt: curl -A “Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; OS X Leopard 9A365; en) KHTML” http://reader.mac.com/mobile/v1/http%3A//www.hopelessgeek.com/rss.xml > foo.html This worked well, but the links were off as they were not fully-qualified. Insert a However, this is a little kludgy. There’s a better way. Open up Firefox and go to about:config and search for “agent”. For the general.useragent.extra.firefox value, double-click and then enter, simply, “iPhone”. Now browse to the URL of the iPhone application directly and it will load in FF without issue. For now. Tip to Apple: Safari’s debug menu needs an iPhone option under User Agent.
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 Author Biography Adam Knight is one of the founders of Mac Geekery and is a geek at heart. Programmer by day, hacker by night, his daily life revolves around the Macintosh platform, which he has been a user and programmer for since the early days of System 7 when his LCII replaced his Apple //c. In-between tech jobs, he’s managed to learn the basics of any web hacker: PHP, MySQL, Perl, Apache, Linux, *BSD, and the intricacies of ./configure —prefix=~/bombshelter/. Today, codepoet is concentrating on blogging again, writing some software for the Mac by himself (including Notae) and for his company (such as Switchblade) and has a few other toys coming out soon. Bug him over AIM or email [link fixed]. |
Firefox user agent string can be easily modified using the “user agent switcher” extension.
I wish i could attach this, its the user agent export, so far it works but the feed url he gave didnt respond. i am posting it in the next comment.
ok, i can’t post xml on your site, lest i entity all the markup, which will be interesting. Enter vi!
I updated the comment so it would post its contents raw. What browser does it work on?
sweet!, thanks it works in firefox. copy and paste this into a text document and save as xml. then have the firefox useragent switcher import the file. of corse, i claim no leetness on my part. i just put the relevent info into firefox and exported the agent. and here is how to do it in safari. (not through user agent switch, when u read the page you’ll get it). www.rubyrobot.org/article/spoofing-the-user-agent-for-awstats-with-safar…