Re: Issue 166: clarify term "User Agent" and resolve inconsistencies with W3C specs

I'd agree the chosen terminology isn't great. Not sure that changing  
it wouldn't cause more proplems than it solves.


On 02/06/2009, at 5:16 PM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>
>> To me, the biggest difference is that a UA is the end node; i.e.,  
>> it is the 'origin client' to compliment the 'origin server.' A  
>> proxy is a client, not a user-agent.
>
> Ah yes. That's a very good point, but isn't it a bit too subtle to  
> name an end-point "UA" while an end-point or proxy is called  
> "client" ?
>
> I mean, if the distinction in the docs need to separate an end-point  
> from a proxy, won't for example those (more explicit) terms be  
> better to use then?
>
> -- 
>
> / daniel.haxx.se
>


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