Re: HTML interpreter vs. HTML user agent

On Tue, 26 May 2009 21:26:14 +0200, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com> wrote:
> When spiders, search engines, proxies, and other
> web intermediaries got added to the web architecture,
> the header "User-Agent" remained, even when some of
> those agents are not operating directly in service
> of a human end user.

I have the feeling the term "user agent" remained as well. At least within the W3C. So I'm not sure this distinction makes sense here.


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Received on Wednesday, 27 May 2009 13:48:45 UTC