Re: Proposal on removing Content Negotiation from http 1.1

At 04:02 pm 1/24/96 -0800, M. Hedlund spake:
>I have a counterproposal: let's abolish the User-Agent header!  Since 
>everyone's violating Netscape's trademark and identifying themselves as 
>'Mozilla' anyways, the header provides no useful information.

   Hear! Hear!

   Especially since they don't even support the features! Try 
sending a multi-blocked GIF to MSIE sometime. Gads! There outta be 
a law or somthin'!


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Received on Wednesday, 24 January 1996 16:50:21 UTC