- From: Martin Nilsson <nilsson@opera.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 09:17:18 +0100
- To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 23:54:28 +0100, Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> wrote: > > 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. > On the apps-discuss list it was stated that all major browsers already conformed to this specification, which makes it easy to conform to, but also a bit pointless. If we could get agreement on a single user-agent string and have all browsers move to that one at the same time, that would be a standard I would be enthusiastic to endorse. An agreement in a secret back room would do just as fine as a standard I suppose... /Martin Nilsson -- Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
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