Re: User-Agent header field and quoted-string

• From: Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>
• Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 13:26:31 +1300
• To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
• Message-ID: <542B4A37.1010308@treenet.co.nz>

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On 1/10/2014 9:13 a.m., Martin Thomson wrote:
> RFC 7231 defines the User-Agent header field as follows:
> 
> User-Agent = product *( RWS ( product / comment ) ) product
> = token ["/" product-version] product-version = token
> 
> All web browsers produce a quoted-string.  Clearly that is not
> causing the world to end.

Huh?

... and I say that with 17 years experience working in one way or
another with UA signature sniffing and UA product registries.

Amos

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