Modifying User Agent with mod_rewrite

Hello,

is it possible to set the user agent to static value with mod_rewrite?

So, every requesting user agent should be rewritten to anything like
"NotExistingBrowser"

Thanks a lot,
Martin

> is it possible to set the user agent to static value with mod_rewrite?
>
> So, every requesting user agent should be rewritten to anything like
> "NotExistingBrowser"

with apache2 it's easy, use

RequestHeader set User-Agent "NotExistingBrowser"

this replaces the actual header and will therefore also work in
forward or reverse proxy situations.

with apache 1.3 you don't have RequestHeader. you could try to set the
environment variable HTTP_USER_AGENT to some value which might or
might not work (probably depending on module loading order) for cgis,
ssi or php in that same webserver instance - i have no 1.3
installation on hand to test it. anyway the line is:

RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_USER_AGENT:NotExistingBrowser]

joachim

On 21 Dec 2003 16:22:23 -0800, Joachim Ring <jring@web.de> wrote:
>> is it possible to set the user agent to static value with mod_rewrite?
>>
>> So, every requesting user agent should be rewritten to anything like
>> "NotExistingBrowser"
>
>with apache 1.3 you don't have RequestHeader. you could try to set the
>environment variable HTTP_USER_AGENT to some value which might or
>might not work (probably depending on module loading order) for cgis,
>ssi or php in that same webserver instance - i have no 1.3
>installation on hand to test it. anyway the line is:
>
>RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_USER_AGENT:NotExistingBrowser]

OK, I have an apache 1.3

I tried the line you posted above, but it wouldn't work. In the ethereal
sniff I saw the original Mozilla/4.0 (compatible ...)

So I tried to do something like:
RewriteRule ^/exchweb(.*)$ http://10.1.1.9/exchweb$1 [E=HTTP_USER_AGENT
:NotExistingBrowser,P,L]

but this also didn't work.

Can you please help me again?
Thanks,
Martin
>
>joachim