- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 14:07:22 -0700
- To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Cc: Patrick Pelletier <code@funwithsoftware.org>, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>, IETF HTTP WG <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Sep 13, 2013, at 1:51 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <826E49BC-8F03-43DA-9B19-62F5C999B5C1@gbiv.com>, "Roy T. Fielding" writes: > >> One could argue a lot of things, but disabling the often-used >> and very useful User-Agent string [...] > > How about making it intelligently usable instead ? These concerns are already addressed (to the extent we can) in p2. Nobody is being forced to send long UA header fields. I also find it silly to send TMI, particularly when browser folks complain about request latency (sending and parsing the UA string is always in the critical path). However, there is a huge difference between TMI and sending enough information for a server to identify and work around known protocol issues. ....Roy
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