Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 20:21:58 +0300 From: Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: www/linux-firefox user-agent string Message-ID: <cb5206420602080921x6a9c39ecs9c3c173bb1028820@mail.gmail.com>
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I maintain linux-firefox and linux-seamonkey ports. Naturally linux browsers have "Linux" by default in their user-agent strings. We can alter the default behaviour and put FreeBSD instead of Linux there, or even something more elaborate like "FreeBSD Linux-compat". We can make it optional via WITHOUT_. I'd like to know what you guys think about it. HTTP 1.0/1.1 RFCs state: [User-Agent request-header field] is for statistical purposes, the tracing of protocol violations, and automated recognition of user agents for the sake of tailoring responses to avoid particular user agent limitations. I think that displaying FreeBSD is more to the spirit of this, concerning that Linux-compat isn't a full blown emulation, but just a compatibility layer.
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