Bug in wordreference.com when FirePHP is activated

[bigben895]

Hello

I often use FirePHP when I develop, but I noticed a strange bug : when
I go on the site http://wordreference.com and I try to translate
something, it automatically redirects me on fr.yahoo.com. I have
disabled and enabled all my Firefox extensions one by one, and I
realise the bug exists only when FirePHP is enabled (with Firebug too,
of course).
Has anyone already have this bug ?

[Alex Burka]

Confirmed on Leopard, FF3.0.1, FB1.2.0, FP0.1.1.

This thread seems to hint that the wordreference.com server does some very strict verification of the User Agent (which FirePHP modifies when enabled). This is sort of a problem on wordreference's end, but if this sort of thing is common maybe FirePHP could indicate its status in a less visible way -- like an X-FirePHP-Enabled request header.

[Alex Burka]

Sorry, apparently my link didn't go through.
The thread I meant to refer to is http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=378&highlight=redirected+yahoo

On Sep 1, 2008, at 10:56 AM, bigben895 wrote:

[Christoph Dorn]

The User-Agent header needs to be updated. See:
http://groups.google.com/group/FirePHP/browse_thread/thread/5cbcbd37315c97e1/c107762c2f10dbfa

This kind of issue is best solved by allowing FirePHP to be enabled/
disabled for specific sites rather than as a whole. I have added a
ticket in the issue tracker (Issue 24).

Christoph