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Override headers using selenium webdriver + firefox profile #1054

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lukeis opened this issue Mar 2, 2016 · 9 comments
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Override headers using selenium webdriver + firefox profile #1054

lukeis opened this issue Mar 2, 2016 · 9 comments
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lukeis commented Mar 2, 2016

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 1054


I am not sure if this is the place to post this question.
I want to override firefox headers using selenium webdriver and profile.

this is pretty my my test code:

require "rubygems"
require "selenium-webdriver"
include Selenium

profile = WebDriver::Firefox::Profile.new

profile['general.useragent.override'] = "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0
like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7A341
Safari/528.1"
profile['general.description.override'] = "Mozilla" # appCodeName
profile['general.appname.override'] = "Netscape"
profile['general.appversion.override'] = "5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0 like Mac
OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7A341 Safari/528.16"
profile['general.platform.override'] = "iPhone"
profile['general.vendor.override'] = "Vendor" #
profile['general.vendorsub.override'] = "Subvendor" #

driver = WebDriver.for :firefox, :profile => profile

driver.navigate.to "my page"


These don't work:
profile['general.vendor.override'] = "Vendor" #
profile['general.vendorsub.override'] = "Subvendor" #


I am using Firefox 3.6.2 on linux ubuntu 10.10


cheers


Leo

Reported by leonardoanalista on 2010-11-30 14:05:47
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lukeis commented Mar 2, 2016 

In what way are the last two not working? They do appear in about:config for me:

http://i52.tinypic.com/2di0zf8.png

Reported by jari.bakken on 2010-11-30 19:46:32

  • Labels added: Component-WebDriver, Browser-Firefox

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lukeis commented Mar 2, 2016 

Thanks Jari


Replacing the line above: driver.navigate.to "my page"

to:

driver.navigate.to "http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/features/test/"

I have attached the screenshot.


Maybe this is not really a bug but I had no option when I created the issue...

Btw how did you verify the override values in your attached picture?


cheers
Leonardo

Reported by leonardoanalista on 2010-11-30 21:51:25

- _Attachment: selenium_headers.png
![selenium_headers.png](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/selenium/issue-1054/comment-2/selenium_headers.png)_

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lukeis commented Mar 2, 2016 

I'm guessing Firefox no longer supports overriding those navigator properties through
user prefs (or the keys have changed). Setting them manually seems to have no effect
on the results of that page either. If you can see the preferences in about:config,
then WebDriver is working as advertised. :)

Reported by jari.bakken on 2010-11-30 22:14:44

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lukeis commented Mar 2, 2016 

Here are the correct properties:

 profile['general.useragent.vendor'] = "Vendor" 
 profile['general.useragent.vendorSub'] = "Subvendor"

Reported by jari.bakken on 2010-11-30 22:17:29

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lukeis commented Mar 2, 2016 

Thats' great! 
thanks a lot

Leonardo

Reported by leonardoanalista on 2010-12-01 11:02:31

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lukeis commented Mar 2, 2016 

Do you think we could disable cookies as well?

Leo

Reported by leonardoanalista on 2010-12-02 12:53:04

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lukeis commented Mar 2, 2016 

I don't know. You'll need to ask Google/Mozilla.

Some preferences are documented here (though not sure how up-to-date that is):

http://preferential.mozdev.org/preferences.html

Reported by jari.bakken on 2010-12-02 13:35:04

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lukeis commented Mar 2, 2016

Reported by jari.bakken on 2015-02-26 23:01:19

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lukeis commented Mar 2, 2016

Reported by luke.semerau on 2015-09-17 18:11:38

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