Level Help (Somebody hit me with a text-book please)

Also my attempt counter has gone up so I know I need to do something prior to visiting the page and need to change something in my browser.

P.s. Using Firefox

Okay, here’s the text-book… use it to hit your head

The Definition: User agent. It’s one of HTTP header fields.
The Objective: Change your user agent.
The Reason (What made you confused like this): You read wrong discussion thread, lol.

Ok, do you need more hints?

Thank you @freewind1012 but a bit more information in depth because I’m more interested in this widespread not just for completing the level. Could I also use a packet sniffer to complete the level?

Ok, widespread knowledge: Every browser has its own user agent. Here’s the list of User Agent Strings. What do developers can do if they get user’s user agent?
[list]
[] If an user is using Chrome >=20: the background color will be yellow.
[] If an user is using Chrome <20: the background color will be gold.
[] If an user is using Firefox (no matter which version): the background color will be orange.
[] If an user is using IE >=8: the background color will be blue.
[*] If an user is using IE <8: redirect to “Please upgrade your outdated browser!” page.
[/list]
Another example is Google Analytics. It collects user agents data for people and help them to increase UX.

About your method: No, you don’t need to do that. There’s a simpler method to complete this level. :p

The first line in wikipedia I misread before.

[quote=Wikipedia]In computing, a user agent is software (a software agent) that is acting on behalf of a user. For example, an email reader is a mail user agent, and in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), the term user agent refers to both end points of a communications session.[/quote]

Sooooooo… ummmmmm… If I read that correctly then I would not have had to post here. So basically the User-Agent is in this case the Web Browser? Am I right? The example, email reader and acts on behalf of the user therefore the Web Browser is acting on behalf of me. Correct?

This level is kiliinnng meeeee…. I think I’m getting somewhere just a bit but… idk I don’t want to give spoilers out so if someone can pm me?

If you already read that link, you would see there are a lot of things which have user agent: browsers, mobile browsers, feed readers…

In this case, yes, what you need to focus on is the browser’s user agent. Because you are solving level(s) in a website after all.

@MaxLockhart , if you want PM me the way you are doing it and i will lead you in the right way :)

MaxLockhart does this level need soo much attention . Its too easy !! After all its basic+2 ?
all the hints are enough search for some addons for Firefox which changes the user agent !!

I don’t like to use software all that much for one and I was over thinking it…. I’ll explain details in a pm

You don’t even have to use any 3rd party add-on/extension to solve this level. Just make sure to know well about your browser. :|

I knew what to do but it was a context issue. I didn’t know the UA string name. If that’s a hint without giving a spoiler. I didn’t know that the string/answer given was the correct thing. Simply because it does not look like a user agent string