- From: Dale Anderson <dra@redevised.net>
- Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 00:17:38 -0700
- To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CANNRn6K2FUaQoTnEn4VE-sAMDDOHPcUOUMijppPOAtKAHaNcCQ@mail.gmail.com>
Good evening. To -hopefully- conclude my series of talking to myself about section 6.3, here is a proposed new section 6.3. And following that a few example User-Agent headers for reference when considering language to do with what I call the "bonus" information generally referring to system architecture, particularly the two alternative endings to the proposed section 6.3. 6.3. Product Tokens Product tokens are used to allow communicating applications to identify themselves by software name and version. A product token SHOULD consist of a product and a product-version, separated by a slash “/”. Product tokens are separated by linear whitespace. When software versions change, the product SHOULD stay the same and only the product-version portion vary, to aid parseability and comparison. By convention, the products are listed in order of their significance for identifying the application. In practice, clients exhibit bonus information parenthetically between product tokens. This information is proprietary and SHOULD NOT be attempted to be used meaningfully. -or- In practice, clients exhibit bonus information parenthetically following product tokens. This information refers to the preceding product token and identifies information about the host system architecture upon which the client runs. User-Agent: curl/7.19.7 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8k zlib/1.2.3.3 libidn/1.15 User-Agent: Wget/1.12 (linux-gnu) User-Agent: Links (2.1pre32; Linux 2.6.24-16-generic x86_64; 80x24) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110628 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.18 Dale
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