How To Mask Joomla Aggregator Like Mozilla Firefox, how to block Aggregator by user agent Options

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Rss feeds from some sites not allow aggregator importing - this is blocked by directive in htaccess - by user agent or by IP address. Here is example code for .htaccess how to block by user agent. With this type of code you can block aggregators to read rss feeds in your site.

Joomla Aggregator use simplepie parser to fetch rss feeds. When aggregator fetch rss feed server see user agent. User agent of simplepie parser is simplepie.

To change this and wbesites do not understand that rss feed is readed with simplepie:
Mask simplepie parser like Mozilla Firefox

How to change: Find in file simplepie.inc code:

Код

define('SIMPLEPIE_USERAGENT', SIMPLEPIE_NAME . '/' . SIMPLEPIE_VERSION . ' (Feed Parser; ' . SIMPLEPIE_URL . '; Allow like Gecko) Build/' . SIMPLEPIE_BUILD);

Replace with something like this:

Код

define('SIMPLEPIE_USERAGENT', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; bg; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)');

In this way simplepie parser is masked like Mozilla Firefox.