Re: Proposal to advertise UA automation

Thanks! Moved it there.

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:42 AM, Jacob Pratt <jhprattdev@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'll second that.
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> Jacob H. Pratt
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> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Michael[tm] Smith <mike@w3.org> wrote:
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>> To get greater visibility for this proposal, you probably want to re-post
>> it over at https://discourse.wicg.io/
>>
>>   —Mike
>>
>> Sergey Shekyan <shekyan@gmail.com>, 2017-01-17 21:12 -0800:
>> > Archived-At: <http://www.w3.org/mid/CAPkvmc
>> 8GZVPVW+APk=6Sa9Mj52mJ=bTsW4sK0GzhJeOAqbB-0g@mail.gmail.com>
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'd like to discuss benefits of advertising user agent automation. I
>> > started the topic at webappsec (
>> > https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webappsec/2017Jan/0004.html
>> ),
>> > but this mailing list seems to be more suitable for the topic.
>> >
>> > The idea is to attach an HTTP request header to navigation requests that
>> > are initiated by automation tools, by which I mean headless browsers,
>> web
>> > driver driven browsers, etc.
>> >
>> > The benefit for the webste operator is to have a choice in responding to
>> > such requests differently. For example, do not serve ads, suggest using
>> API
>> > scraping rather that loading heavy resources, send through failed
>> CAPTCHA
>> > route, etc.
>> >
>> > This approach intersects with robots.txt a little, but none of modern UA
>> > automation tools honor robots.txt, and implementing the advertising flag
>> > seems to be relatively easy.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Sergey Shekyan
>>
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