- From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 23:11:05 +0100
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>, "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>
Hi Julian, On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 10:26:15PM +0100, Julian Reschke wrote: > On 2009-06-03 09:48, Mark Nottingham wrote: > >I'd agree the chosen terminology isn't great. Not sure that changing it > >wouldn't cause more proplems than it solves. > >... > > We had a off-list conversation with Larry, and he suggested text leaving > the definition as-is, but adding a note make it clearer that in > HTTP, "user agent" can also mean "autonomous client". > > Proposed text: > <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/attachment/ticket/166/166.diff>. > > The new paragraph would be: > > "Note: The term 'user agent' covers both those situations where there is > a user (human) interacting with the software agent (and for which user > interface or interactive suggestions might be made, e.g., warning the > user or given the user an option in the case of security or privacy > options) and also those where the software agent may act autonomously." The long sentence between parenthesis is not easy to parse but I have no proposal for anything better. Anyway, once you get it, everything is clear. +1 for me. Best regards, Willy
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