On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 11:05 AM Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> wrote: > On Mon, 3 Dec 2018, Mike West wrote: > > > the entire mechanism in Fetch if this group is willing to point off in > that > > direction in a future version of RFC7231 that deprecates `User-Agent`. > > I would be most curious on *how* we would go ahead and actually deprecate > User-Agent for real on the web. Just saying it in a document like that > won't > be enough. > https://github.com/mikewest/ua-client-hints#a-proposal tries to lay out a story: in short, we take another stab at Safari's attempt to freeze the UA string, with the client hint serving as an escape valve for developers who have legitimate need for the existing string. -mike
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