Re: User-Agent Header? ( LC-2044)

 Dear Jim Jewett ,

The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has reviewed the comments you
sent [1] on the Last Call Working Draft [2] of the Content Transformation
Guidelines 1.0 published on 1 Aug 2008. Thank you for having taken the time
to review the document and to send us comments!

The Working Group's response to your comment is included below, and has
been implemented in the new version of the document available at:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ct-guidelines-20091006/.

Please review it carefully and let us know by email at
public-bpwg-comments@w3.org if you agree with it or not before 6 November
2009. In case of disagreement, you are requested to provide a specific
solution for or a path to a consensus with the Working Group. If such a
consensus cannot be achieved, you will be given the opportunity to raise a
formal objection which will then be reviewed by the Director during the
transition of this document to the next stage in the W3C Recommendation
Track.

Thanks,

For the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group,
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
François Daoust
W3C Staff Contacts

 1.
http://www.w3.org/mid/fb6fbf560808051815r795f2948r6504921eaada0d4f@mail.gmail.com
 2. http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-ct-guidelines-20080801/


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Your comment on 4.1.3 Treatment of Requesters that are not Web browsers:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-ct-guidelines-20080801/
> 
> 
> Section 4.1.3 ...
> 
> ""'
> The mechanism by which a proxy recognizes the user agent as a Web
> browser should use evidence from the HTTP request, in particular the
> User-Agent and Accept headers.
> """
> 
> Please clarify -- is this just the *existence* of those headers, or
> the specific values?  If it is the specific values, then please
> provide some guidance (or a normative alternative) that new user
> agents can use, before their names propagate to various whitelists.
> 
> -jJ


Working Group Resolution (LC-2044):
We agree that there was no existing mechanism by which proxies may
positively determine that the requesting agent is a Web browser and have
replaced the normative statement by an informative warning. As a
consequence, the text does not mention "use of evidence" anymore.

The updated text is available at:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ct-guidelines-20091006/Overview.html#sec-non-web-browsers

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Received on Tuesday, 6 October 2009 15:49:34 UTC