- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:48:50 +0200
- To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- CC: Roberto Peon <grmocg@gmail.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
On 2012-07-17 15:38, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <CAP+FsNfvUxmWdR2304QXxQMDwVRC5SVimJFSvStjd6KpGxQaOQ@mail.gmail.com> > , Roberto Peon writes: > > [lack of dictionary support for user-agent] > >> A combination of future proofing and neutrality, as you've guessed. > > Yeah, I can understand that. > > Still sucks though. > > The WURFL database contains what ? 17.000 entires ? > > and that's just mobile devices. > > There must be a smarter way than "User-Agent:"... Actually one nice potential optimization is if the server can declare that it's not interested in the User-Agent at all; see <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-http-browser-hints-03#section-5.7> Best regards, Julian
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