- From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
- Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 09:28:28 +0200 (CEST)
- To: Mark Nottingham <Mnot@mnot.net>
- cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Mon, 2 May 2011, Mark Nottingham wrote: >> I think that we should recommend that clients not send a U-A header at all, >> to enourage servers to DTRT with respect to content portablity. > > Agreed, but from discussing this (at length) with browser vendors, they're > unwilling to change UA and other headers much, because of potential interop > problems with sites that depend upon them. I can confirm that not using a user-agent header at all gives a certain amount of problems. I can't give any specific numbers, but libcurl does its default requests without such a header and that is known to cause grief every now and then. I recall that even Apache has (had?) some set of UA-based browser checks that check for known faulty browsers to be able to do the necessary work-arounds. -- / daniel.haxx.se
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