- From: M. Hedlund <march@europa.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 11:13:42 -0800 (PST)
- To: wmperry@spry.com
- Cc: Dave Garaffa <d-garaffa@ski.mskcc.org>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
On Fri, 24 Mar 1995 wmperry@spry.com wrote: > Shouldn't the User-Agent field follow 'normal' specs for headers and do > something like: > > User-Agent: agent=NCSA Mosaic/2.0.0b1 ; platform=Macintosh/680x0 > library=WWWLib/3.0.x ; other=Whatever > > This would make it a little easier for people like Dave to parse the > string, without having to worry about order of the arguments, etc. Plus > this would allow whitespace (but not ;) in the specifier. Yes, I like Bill's proposal and I've suggested platform in the user-agent field before. This would, however, completely break current systems (which tend to look for the text before the first / as user-agent name, and can survive miscreant whitespace) that currently work with HTTP/1.0 requests. Can we defer this to 1.1? M. Hedlund <march@europa.com>
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