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Re: When HTML content depends on the browser

From: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 22:32:03 +0200
To: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
cc: Dan Lewis <dlewis@scu.edu>
Message-ID: <a0106000f-1025-D0C79E5871DC11D7B5DF0030657B83E8@[193.157.66.23]>

Dan Lewis <dlewis@scu.edu> wrote:

>My CGI scripts sense the client's browser type and produces a version of
>the requested content optimized for that particular browser. Is there a
>way to set the browser identification string that the cacheability and
>markup validation tools send to my CGI scripts?

Not at present, no. But I have added this as a feature request in our issue
tracking database (Bug #192;
<http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=192>). Feel free to add
yourself to the CC list if you want to track it's progress.

Until this is implemented you can work around this by making the
Validator's User-Agent string be an alaias for the browser output you wish
to test in your browser detection code.

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