Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
Click
User Agent
.
Click the browser you want Safari to emulate.
Note:
If you still cannot access the website, repeat steps
1
to
3
to try different browser
types, as needed.
Note:
When you are done with the website, click
Develop
, click
User Agent
, and then
click
Default
.
TIP
How does a website know that I am using Safari?
When you access a website, it has the option of asking the web browser to provide a string
called the
user agent
, which identifies the web browser and provides extra data such as
the browser version number and operating system type (such as OS X or Windows). Any
site that supports only specific web browsers will ask for the user agent data and then use
code to examine the data and decide whether the browser is allowed to access the site. In
the workaround described in this section, you are telling Safari to provide the site with a
different user agent string.
