Changing the iPhone web browser user agent?

I bought this thinking that I could watch full episodes of the Colbert Report if I used the Mac Safari user agent, but after setting iCab up that way the Colbert site still recognized my iPad as a mobile device and limited access to full episodes available on my mac. Is there some other setting other than user agent (Browser ID) that tips websites off that the client is a mobile browser?

They may be checking to see if your device has Flash and considering it an iOS mobile device since you don't.

I am unsure of which browsers allow this, although just do a quick google search and you'll get tons of apps. My suggestion is try scrolling down to the bottom of the page. Sometimes, you'll be able to click a button that says something like classic mode or view full version or disable mobile site. something like that. This will load the page as if you were on a computer. Some sites don't offer this, but there are a bunch that do have this option.

I've been using iCab Mobile for quite a while (costs is $1.99). "Settings" for iCab Mobile allows one to select the "Browser ID" from a list of common web browsers, or to select your own. It also includes control over cookies, and filter options to get rid of annoying ads. Ratings for iCab are mixed, but I never experienced any problems using iCab myself.

You can't cahnge this for Safari but there are other browsers you can download from the app store that have this feature. I use iCabMobile and it has several browser ID's to choose from.

This sounds like something that could be done in developer mode.

JB would be the only wait mere mortals could do it.

Some sites let you change the default and save it as a cookie.