- From: Eric W. Sink <eric@spyglass.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 11:39:32 -0600
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
The grammar for the User-Agent header currently reads like this:
> User-Agent = "User-Agent" ":" 1*( product )
>
> product = token ["/" product-version]
> product-version = 1*DIGIT "." 1*DIGIT
In my opinion, this is a bit too restrictive. For example, all of the
following version numbers are illegal using this grammar.
1 simple integer, no minor rev
2.0a1 Apple standard format for an alpha release
1.0.2.87 Microsoft standard format
Other version numbering schemes may cause other problems. May I suggest
that we not try to impose the format of the version number beyond saying
which characters we allow there?
--
Eric W. Sink, Senior Software Engineer -- eric@spyglass.com
I don't speak for Spyglass.
Received on Tuesday, 17 January 1995 08:39:07 UTC