SearXNG user agent, send client browser user agent to upstream search engine. #4654
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Is there a way to make searxng pass the actual user agent of the client browser to the upstream search engines? Or are these hardcoded and that's it? |
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Pass user-agent from client to all the origin search engines is a violation of end user's privacy --> Its "hard coded" and updated regularly. |
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Well, I'm talking about a private instance. So i guess I'll have to modify the code. I don't want it to pass FF user agent. |
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See searxng/searx/search/processors/online.py Line 63 in 07a94d4 Some search engines returns different versions of their website according to the user agent --> some engines will stop working if you send something else than the Firefox user agent --> if you engine does not work, check with |
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Thanks a lot, I'll do some test. Obviously I wouldn't submit issues for bug caused by myself. |
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Pass user-agent from client to all the origin search engines is a violation of end user's privacy --> Its "hard coded" and updated regularly.