Unicorn UA (was: A critical error on W3C Unicorn validator)

From: Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org> Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:36:56 +0100 To: Thomas Gambet <tgambet@w3.org> Cc: public-qa-dev@w3.org Message-ID: <1291757816.2982.6.camel@altocumulustier> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Friday, 17 January 2020 16:54:57 UTC

Le mardi 07 décembre 2010 à 15:05 -0500, Thomas Gambet a écrit :
> Specifically if the user-agent is Java/1.6.0_20, which is 
> what Unicorn uses

Unless there is a reason not to, it would probably make sense to have
Unicorn use a more distinctive User-Agent (similar to what has been done
for the Markup validator, the linkchecker, the mobileok checker, etc) —
not so much avoid Java-UA blocking, but to be a good Web bot.

Dom