[2.0.15] View User Agent

[MOD Robot]

MOD Name: View User Agent
Author: tomythius
MOD Description: Displays the user agent of a session on the admin page


MOD Version: 1.0.4 (Updated 06/26/05)

Download File: useragent_v1.0.4.mod
mods overview page: View
File Size: 8200 Bytes

Security Score: 0

[ycl6]

MOD Validated/Released

Notes:
Users' Agent info are displayed in admin control panel with this MOD.

[tomythius]

Thanks guys.

[bonzi]

I didnt quite understand what is it.

[tomythius]

Screenshot:

Note the extra column in the who is online table, this displays what is being used to view the pages in that session.
Works for guests too, useful for tracking googlebot and RSS grabbers.

[markus_petrux]

Note the extra column in the who is online table...

Could you please consider showing the useragent as another table row (using colspan="4" and gensmall)?

I have PM'd you regarding a security issue.

[tomythius]

Markus has alerted me to the possibility that users could incorporate html into their user agent string.
To correct this line 225 of the mod file:

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"USER_AGENT" => $guest_agent,

should be changed to:

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"USER_AGENT" => htmlspecialchars($guest_agent),

and line 209 of the mod file:

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"USER_AGENT" => $reg_agent,

should be changed to:

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"USER_AGENT" => htmlspecialchars($reg_agent),

This has been fixed in v1.0.4

Could you please consider showing the useragent as another table row (using colspan="4" and gensmall)?

I'm not quite sure why you'd want to do this? Surely it's better to have the agent displayed inline with the session it refers to...

[kulinar]

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#
#-----[ FIND ]------------------------------------------
#
               $sql = "UPDATE " . SESSIONS_TABLE . "
                  SET session_time
#
#-----[ IN-LINE FIND ]------------------------------------------
#
   $thispage_id
#
#-----[ IN-LINE AFTER, ADD ]------------------------------------------
#
, session_agent = $agent

in my sessions.php file the code is

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$sql = "UPDATE " . SESSIONS_TABLE . "
                  SET session_time = $current_time, session_page = $thispage_id$update_admin

which means the new code will look like that

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$sql = "UPDATE " . SESSIONS_TABLE . "
                  SET session_time = $current_time, session_page = $thispage_id, session_agent = $agent$update_admin

which looks strange to me

[tomythius]

in my sessions.php file the code is

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$sql = "UPDATE " . SESSIONS_TABLE . "
                  SET session_time = $current_time, session_page = $thispage_id$update_admin

I don't see this in my source, and it looks badly formed. Have you already modded sessions.php?

which means the new code will look like that

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$sql = "UPDATE " . SESSIONS_TABLE . "
                  SET session_time = $current_time, session_page = $thispage_id, session_agent = $agent$update_admin

which looks strange to me

How is one more strange than the other? Both end with two variables next to each other.

[kulinar]

I don't see this in my source, and it looks badly formed. Have you already modded sessions.php?

Yes, I have modded sessions.php many times. I run heavily modded board.
Instead of this

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$sql = "UPDATE " . SESSIONS_TABLE . "
                  SET session_time = $current_time, session_page = $thispage_id, session_agent = $agent$update_admin

I used this

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$sql = "UPDATE " . SESSIONS_TABLE . "
                  SET session_time = $current_time, session_page = $thispage_id$update_admin, session_agent = $agent

and it works for me so far.

...and it looks badly formed

I don't know which mod transformed my session.php file. What is so bad with it?

[Saoshyant]

This MOD sounds very interesting and actually very useful to identify real users from bots (and vice versa), however I will not install it until version 1.0.4 is out :S

[MakePB]

It is interesting and useful.Indeed.
Could we maybe get a alternative link where your newest version is released (1.0.4) because it seems that they are some bugs fixed?

Thanks

[skuld the great]

Thats cool!

Is there anything like this for showing it stamped on each post?

[tomythius]

It is interesting and useful.Indeed.
Could we maybe get a alternative link where your newest version is released (1.0.4) because it seems that they are some bugs fixed?

Thanks

Here y'go: http://tom.whaletattoo.com/useragent_v1.0.4.mod
It's not been validated officially, but there are only two minor changes.

[tomythius]

Thats cool!

Is there anything like this for showing it stamped on each post?

I guess you could apply a similar modification to posting.php, making it insert the user agent of the poster into the posts table like it does with IP addresses, then making it display a clickable icon.