+1 roBman On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 14:03:35 +1000 Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote: > The current draft of XHR2 doesn't allow clients to set the UA header. > > That's unfortunate, because part of the intent of the UA header is to > identify the software making the request, for debugging / tracing > purposes. > > Given that lots of libraries generate XHR requests, it would be > natural for them to identify themselves in UA, by appending a token > to the browser's UA (the header is a list of product tokens). As it > is, they have to use a separate header. > > I understand that it may not be desirable to allow UA to be > overwritten, but making it append-only would be valuable... > > Cheers, > > > -- > Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/Received on Wednesday, 5 September 2012 04:21:08 GMT
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