- From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 23:54:28 +0100 (CET)
- To: Mateusz Karcz <mateusz.karcz@interia.eu>
- cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Fri, 14 Nov 2014, Mateusz Karcz wrote: > My name's Mateusz Karcz and I'm an author of the Internet Draft titled > "Unified User-Agent String" ( full text: > https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-karcz-uuas-01 ). The main goal of this > proposal is simplifying and clarifying the content of the User-Agent HTTP > header field, while maintaining the existing possibility of its use and > preserving validity of existing implementations. While an interesting exercise, do you have any HTTP client/browser authors backing up this idea and syntax? This seems like a futile effort to me with little hope of adaption. I'm the author of a HTTP client using the simplest possible User-agent but I'm also fully aware of how often users have to mimic popular browsers' user-agent strings to make servers respond appropriately. There's a lot of pain and many side-effects in doing even minor modifications of the user-agent string. -- / daniel.haxx.se
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