www/linux-firefox user-agent string
Andrew Pantyukhin
infofarmer at gmail.com
Wed Feb 8 09:22:01 PST 2006
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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