LO54303: NOTES FEEDREADER AUTHENTICATES ITSELF AS "MSIE 7.0" EVEN ON LINU X

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• The Feedreader in Lotus Notes on Linux uses an hard-coded user
  agent string for
  authentication:
  "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR
  1.1.4322; .NET CLR
  2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
  
  It authenticates as "Microsoft Internet Explorer"  ... even on
  Linux systems.
  
  This should be changed. Instead the user agent of the Notes
  embedded browser
  specific to the platform should be used. For Lotus Notes on
  Linux, this is
  "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko
  Expeditor
  6.2.2.20100629-2230 Gecko/20100629-2230"
  
  The string should be adapted to Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X
  platform
  accordingly.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• A programming error was found and will be corrected in a future
   release.
  

Problem conclusion

• A programming error was found and will be corrected in a future
   release.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

• This APAR is associated with SPR# MWER88NFWT.
  

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  NOTES CLIENT

• Fixed component ID

  5724E6255

Applicable component levels

• R851 PSN

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