navigator.userAgent does not identify OLPC/Sugar

[bert]

Browse currently does not identify itself as OLPC or Sugar in the useragent string. It looks like a generic Linux browser. This is a regression, it worked fine in older versions.

This breaks e.g. the Squeakland showcase (​http://http://squeakland.org/showcase/everyone/) which needs to identify Sugar to download Etoys projects to the Journal. It uses javascript:navigator.userAgent and looks for the substring "olpc".

[sascha_silbe]

Confirmed on Debian Squeeze. Some digging revealed that the Sugar version was previously set by hulahop (​prefs.js.in, ​configure.ac).

There are several issues:

1. Yielding incorrect version numbers since hulahop versions are not coupled to Sugar releases (anymore).
2. Distributions replacing the Sugar version with their own custom string (e.g. Debian/0.7.1-3+1)
3. The setting from prefs.js not getting used at all: The user agent string received by the server is "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20080724 Firefox/3.0".

We should

1. Figure out how to set the user agent within Browse and how to determine the "Sugar Platform" version the current system is supporting, and
2. Release a new version of hulahop that removes the hardcoded Sugar version.

[manuq]

This is already in current Browse that features WebKit, was commited as 4c856a7eccf873bcd04fb1ee8701a241175e6e03 . Closing.