How to change navigator.platform property?

[Moses Mason]

Some sites only work on Windows and MacOS, and they detect user OS by using navigator.platform property. Firefox can change it easily, but can not find a way to spoof this under Chrome/Chromium?

Thanks in advance.

[PhistucK]

I think you have two options -

1. Create a Chrome extension that uses a content script that injects a script at document_start with the following code -

Object.defineProperty(

 navigator,

 "platform",

 {

  get:

   function ()

   {

    return "some-platform-name";

   },

  set:

   function (a)

   {

   }

 });

2. Compile a customized version of Chromium.

☆PhistucK

On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Moses Mason <moses...@gmail.com> wrote:

Some sites only work on Windows and MacOS, and they detect user OS by using navigator.platform property. Firefox can change it easily, but can not find a way to spoof this under Chrome/Chromium?

Thanks in advance.

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[PhistucK]

A third option (and maybe the best? unless it affects other applications, or even Chrome in a non compatible manner) -

The code uses the sysname and the machine fields of uname. If you try to override them, they might show up there.

☆PhistucK

[Moses Mason]

An extension would be good, sadly I can not find such extension... Option 3 is also good. but this will still be a problem on Windows and Mac, a more generic way (maybe build-in support as in Firefox) to solve it would be appreciated.

[Moses]

@sivatumma Sorry your misunderstood, maybe my question is not clear.
In this issue, I am the user, not the webmaster. I need access some
website which restrict user with specific OS. That website use
browser's "navigator.platform" property (instead of user-agent string,
which is much easy to change) to check users' OS. So if there is a
Chrome extension we discussed exists in Chrome webstore, I just
install it and spoof that website so I can access it. There is no
deploy problem here.


On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 6:12 AM, Siva P Thumma <siva...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My doubt is even though a plugin is created, who would be deploying in all
> the client browsers who wish to access your application (website) ?
>
>
> -Siva P Thumma

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[PhistucK]

Chrome extensions are ridiculously easy to create, so you can try creating one by yourself.

☆PhistucK

[Moses Mason]

Thanks, I will try :-)

[Abc *]

you can't override uname without recompiling Linux