User-Agent set incorrectly with XMLHttpRequest / DebugBar forums

shawn · 2010-04-30 18:12:24

I'm seeing the User-Agent header set to the latest version of IE that I have installed (IE8), even when I am running an IE6 tab. I'm on Windows 7 64-bit. Is this a known issue? It would be great to have the XMLHttpRequest use the same User-Agent header for XMLHttpRequests as for normal requests, since sometimes the server responds differently with different user agents (in our case, we're disabling gzip on the server since IE6 has problems with gzip and XMLHttpRequest, but since the server doesn't recognize that it's IE6, we're getting corrupted responses).

To reproduce:

<html><head><script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$.get("http://jquery.com/");
});
</script></head><body>test</body></html>

Thanks for the great tool!

fabrice · 2010-04-30 18:55:43

Hi,

Thanks.

This problem has been reported several times. We hope to correct it in a future release.

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#1 2010-04-30 18:12:24

User-Agent set incorrectly with XMLHttpRequest

#2 2010-04-30 18:55:43

Re: User-Agent set incorrectly with XMLHttpRequest