Released: Modify Headers 0.6.4 and XHTML Mobile Profile 0.5.3
Both Modify Headers and XHTML Mobile Profile have been updated this week.
Version 0.6.4 of Modify Headers fixes a nsIObserver interface problem with the add-on working in Firefox 3 beta. XHTML Mobile Profile 0.5.3 adds support for the content type application/vnd.wap.multipart.mime.
March 6th, 2008 at 1:45 am
Gareth…
Thanks for this brilliant Add-on (Modify Headers), which has alleviated my problem of compression in Firefox via a 3G broadband link.
No chance I suppose of something similar for IE7?!?
If not, perhaps I could trouble you for a suggestion to modify ‘Cache-Control’ to ‘no transform’ in IE7 (?).
Thanks again.
March 6th, 2008 at 9:38 am
Hi Tony,
I don’t plan on doing something similar for IE 7. But you might be able to find an IE 7 addon that does.
BTW, feel free to post in a comment a description (or link to it) of how you are using Modify Headers for your compression problem. I use it for mobile web development, but I’m always interested to see the other uses it has.
Cheers,
Gareth
March 6th, 2008 at 10:49 am
Gareth…..
Simple (thanks to you!)
Firefox > Modify Headers > ‘Add’ > (Name) Cache-Control > (Value) no-transform > Configuration > (check) Always on……
See: http://www.moreati.org.uk/blog/ (February 28, 2008).
This solves the problem of compressed data to my laptop, via T-Mobile (UK) 3G broadband link.
I prefer Firefox over IE7, but the latter sometimes inevitable. There must be a similar solution (can’t find it)!?!
Cheers,
Tony
October 1st, 2008 at 11:38 am
Hello Gareth,
I am a software engineer for grooveshark.com We’re currently tracking a bug with another addon, ‘User Agent Switcher’, which prevents our software from loading on Mac OS machines with the user agent set to IE7. Your addon does not produce the same bug (props). In fact, with Modify Headers, there is no bug; which brings me to my query.
I would like to know which internal preferences are being changed by your addon, so I may compare and nail the coffin on this annoyance. The specific settings in ‘User Agent Switcher’ are listed below. Thanks in advance for your feedback.
[code]
general.appname.override
general.appversion.override
general.platform.override
general.useragent.override
general.useragent.vendor
general.useragent.vendorSub
[/code]
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:17 am
Hi Mike,
Modify Headers works in a different way to the UA Switcher. Instead of updating system preferences, it modifies the request directly by using the observer service and observing the “http-on-modify-request”.
This allows the addon to modify any request header and is not restricted to user-agents only.
Cheers,
Gareth