- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 14:18:36 -0500
- To: Dmitry Beransky <dberansky@ucsd.edu>
- CC: www-talk@w3.org
Dmitry Beransky wrote: > > It seems that despite the fact that most agents (at least the ones I pulled > off my server logs) follow the format specified in the HTTP spec, it's > still impossible to determine with 100% accuracy the agent's make, model, > os platform, etc., since most of this info is stored in an unstructured > comment field. Is there any work done on trying to further standardize the > agent data? Not that I'm aware of. I wish URIs had been used to identify user agents, but that's water under the bridge, and a lot of it, by now. Oh! Hm... I think there's some content negotiation work on standardized ways to transmit screen resolution and stuff... I seem to recall some proposal for doing this in the User-Agent: header, but I think that's fallen out of favor. See: http://gewis.win.tue.nl/~koen/conneg/ (which I found by browsing http://www.w3.org/Protocols/ ) -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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