Comments on: Released: Modify Headers 0.6.4 and XHTML Mobile Profile 0.5.3

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:07:33 +0000

Thank you for the new release – the comments field is very useful. And thanks to Gik for the suggestion. Tim

By: gik

gik — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 07:35:23 +0000

Hello Gareth,
Thanks for new release!
It’s really helpful!

By: Gareth

Gareth — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:06:54 +0000

Hi Gik,

I have the same problem with the MSISDNs I use for testing I’m working on some changes for Modify Headers that will introduce more than just a Comment field, but I’ll consider doing an interim release to add this to the current version.

Cheers,
Gareth

By: gik

gik — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:39:07 +0000

Gareth, thanks for great addons.

I am a wap-developer, and have small proposition for Modify Headers.

Could you add column named “Comment”, so we will able distinct headers with same names?

for example..
I have a lot of MSISDN headers to test mobile site under different users (I think you know this header:))
But I can’t remember all my test users by phone numbers. “Comment” field will help in this case.

and thanks again for addons:)

By: coldbrew

coldbrew — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:14:30 +0000

I really like this extension, so thanks for that Hunt. As a new user it would be great to have some pre-made xml files to import so as not to have to add these manually. Would you be interested in hosting the one I’m making once I’ve got enough to make it worthwhile?

By: Gareth

Gareth — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:17:58 +0000

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

By: Myke Stubbs

Myke Stubbs — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:38:55 +0000

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]

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:49:10 +0000

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

By: gareth

gareth — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:38:00 +0000

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

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:45:53 +0000

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.