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Hope to add a custom user-agent

Postby tommy850924 » Sun Jan 19, 2020 8:05 am

Frequent use of the same user-agent will be limited, like the FDM / 5.1.38.7312 you use
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Re: Hope to add a custom user-agent

Postby Clive Sorensson » Mon Jan 20, 2020 4:27 am

Hello, could you elaborate on what you mean?
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Re: Hope to add a custom user-agent

Postby tommy850924 » Sat Jan 25, 2020 6:46 pm

Can I change my user agent?
It is possible to change or "fake" what your web browser sends as its user agent.

https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/ ... user-agent
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Re: Hope to add a custom user-agent

Postby Clive Sorensson » Sun Jan 26, 2020 3:25 am

I don't think FDM could have that kind of functionality, a user agent is something that doesn't deal with downloading exclusively.
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Re: Hope to add a custom user-agent

Postby Usher » Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:15 am

Clive Sorensson wrote:I don't think FDM could have that kind of functionality,

I think you should better learn FDM 3.x features:
search.php?keywords=user+agent&terms=all&author=Usher&sc=1&sf=all&sr=posts&sk=t&sd=d&st=0&ch=-1&t=0&submit=Search
for example:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17330&p=45289&hilit=user+agent#p45289
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17062&p=40778&hilit=user+agent#p40778
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=17076&p=40411&hilit=user+agent#p40411
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=16365&p=36603&hilit=user+agent#p36603

Custom User-Agent is obviously on the feature request list:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17512&p=45455&hilit=User+agent#p45455
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17512&p=44760&hilit=User+agent#p44760
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17363&p=42614&hilit=User+agent#p42614
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17363&p=42022&hilit=User+agent#p42022

Can you see your own message with "it’s been added to our to-do list" info?
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17062&p=42632&hilit=User+agent#p42646

Clive Sorensson wrote: a user agent is something that doesn't deal with downloading exclusively.
Wrong. Some sites may block download if FDM provides different User-Agent than the web browser where the download has been catched. It's been also explained in some of the linked above messages.
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Re: Hope to add a custom user-agent

Postby Clive Sorensson » Mon Jan 27, 2020 3:22 am

Usher wrote:
Clive Sorensson wrote:I don't think FDM could have that kind of functionality,

I think you should better learn FDM 3.x features:


I should have phrased it better. I meant "at this time".
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Re: Hope to add a custom user-agent

Postby Usher » Mon Jan 27, 2020 1:00 pm

Clive Sorensson wrote:I should have phrased it better. I meant "at this time".
Unfortunately, this is the second "this time", which means it's definitely too long.
And expectations are simple and unchanged:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=17076&p=40411&hilit=user+agent#p40411
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Re: Hope to add a custom user-agent

Postby FDM 3.x user » Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:08 am

I'm coming from FDM3.x to FDM 5.x/6.x. it looks like not only the interface had overly simplified, but features have been taken out as well
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Re: Hope to add a custom user-agent

Postby tommy850924 » Wed Jul 15, 2020 2:43 pm

Feeling sad and disappointed, symbolizing that it is particularly easy to block FDM... :(

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