Verified Commit 57c94a79 authored by Pier Angelo Vendrame's avatar Pier Angelo Vendrame 🎃
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BB 42647: Make OS HTTP User-Agent OS spoofing configurable by pref 

This commits makes it possible to disable OS spoofing in the HTTP
User-Agent header, to see if matching header and JS property improve
usability.
parent 28819892

netwerk/protocol/http/nsHttpHandler.cpp

+11 −0
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@@ -482,6 +482,9 @@ nsresult nsHttpHandler::Init() { 
    // obsService->AddObserver(this, "net:failed-to-process-uri-content", true);

  }



  Preferences::AddWeakObserver(

      this, "privacy.resistFingerprinting.spoofOsInUserAgentHeader"_ns);



  MakeNewRequestTokenBucket();

  mWifiTickler = new Tickler();

  if (NS_FAILED(mWifiTickler->Init())) mWifiTickler = nullptr;
@@ -2140,6 +2143,9 @@ nsHttpHandler::Observe(nsISupports* subject, const char* topic, 
    // Inform nsIOService that network is tearing down.

    gIOService->SetHttpHandlerAlreadyShutingDown();



    Preferences::RemoveObserver(

        this, "privacy.resistFingerprinting.spoofOsInUserAgentHeader"_ns);



    ShutdownConnectionManager();



    // need to reset the session start time since cache validation may
@@ -2262,6 +2268,11 @@ nsHttpHandler::Observe(nsISupports* subject, const char* topic, 
    ShutdownConnectionManager();

    mConnMgr = nullptr;

    Unused << InitConnectionMgr();

  } else if (!strcmp(topic, "nsPref:changed") &&

             !NS_strcmp(

                 data,

                 u"privacy.resistFingerprinting.spoofOsInUserAgentHeader")) {

    nsRFPService::GetSpoofedUserAgent(mSpoofedUserAgent, true);

  }



  return NS_OK;

toolkit/components/resistfingerprinting/nsRFPService.cpp

+8 −3
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@@ -904,11 +904,16 @@ void nsRFPService::GetSpoofedUserAgent(nsACString& userAgent, 
  // https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NavigatorID/userAgent

  // https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/User-Agent



  const bool spoofOs =

      isForHTTPHeader &&

      Preferences::GetBool(

          "privacy.resistFingerprinting.spoofOsInUserAgentHeader", true);



  // These magic numbers are the lengths of the UA string literals below.

  // Assume three-digit Firefox version numbers so we have room to grow.

  size_t preallocatedLength =

      13 +

      (isForHTTPHeader ? mozilla::ArrayLength(SPOOFED_HTTP_UA_OS)

      (spoofOs ? mozilla::ArrayLength(SPOOFED_HTTP_UA_OS)

               : mozilla::ArrayLength(SPOOFED_UA_OS)) -

      1 + 5 + 3 + 10 + mozilla::ArrayLength(LEGACY_UA_GECKO_TRAIL) - 1 + 9 + 3 +

      2;
@@ -917,7 +922,7 @@ void nsRFPService::GetSpoofedUserAgent(nsACString& userAgent, 
  // "Mozilla/5.0 (%s; rv:%d.0) Gecko/%d Firefox/%d.0"

  userAgent.AssignLiteral("Mozilla/5.0 (");



  if (isForHTTPHeader) {

  if (spoofOs) {

    userAgent.AppendLiteral(SPOOFED_HTTP_UA_OS);

  } else {

    userAgent.AppendLiteral(SPOOFED_UA_OS);