Re: New Editor's Draft (1zm) of MobileOK Basic 1.0 Tests Last Call IV Candidate - and possible further change needed :-(

I'd be happy with a change to something like "starts with" though the 
syntax of the User Agent Header might require that we refer to the 
individual components to describe exactly how we anticipate 
extensibility (i.e. within the comment field, I think).

Jo

On 05/06/2008 09:39, Dominique Hazael-Massieux wrote:
> Le lundi 02 juin 2008 à 17:08 +0100, Jo Rabin a écrit :
>> I have just 
>> noticed something that we may wish to change. In the following:
>> #
>> Include a User-Agent header indicating the default delivery context by 
>> sending exactly this header:
>> User-Agent: W3C-mobileOK/DDC-1.0 (see 
>> http://www.w3.org/2006/07/mobileok-ddc)
>> #
>>
>> we say "exactly this header". In fact, as I understand it, a robot 
>> should provide information about how to contact its owner.
> 
> Two notes about this:
>  * I'm not sure this is a "should" really; some robots do, others don't
>  * the checker is not a robot - e.g. we don't make it follow the
> robots.txt convention
> 
> That said, I can certainly see a mobileOK checker used to verify an
> entire site, and thus behaving like a robot. So, I would be tempted to
> relax the constraint to only require that the User-Agent header starts
> exactly with that string. We should obviously highlight that change in
> our last call SOTD if we get to that.
> 
> Dom
> 
>> [1] 
>> http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/Group/Drafts/mobileOK-Basic-1.0-Tests/080602
>> [2] Diff to CR -- http://snurl.com/mobileokcr-1zm
>> [3] Diff to last editor's draft -- http://snurl.com/mobileok1zl-1zm
>

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