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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Review Request: PATCH: Change the default KIO USERAGENT string.
From:       "Dawit Alemayehu" <adawit () kde ! org>
Date:       2011-05-11 16:00:06
Message-ID: 20110511160006.2840.78527 () vidsolbach ! de
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Review request for kdelibs.


Summary
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This patch changes the default user-agent string so that it is more aligned with \
                other browsers by
    - Dropping 'comptiable' and 'U' from the string.
    - Making the platform string, e.g X11, mandatory part of the string.
    - Sending the OS name and machine type (i686,x86-64) by default (configurable).

Additionally the patch for kprotocolmanager.cpp also removes the manual use of '%' to \
append text since kdelibs is now compilable with the QT_USE_FAST_CONCATENATION and \
QT_USE_FAST_OPERATOR_PLUS flags.  
Besides being good for privacy due to less differentiation, this change should make \
it less likely that a different page will be sent sheerly based on user-agent \
sniffing. See the attached screen shot for what the full, default, and minimal \
default user-agent will look like now.


This addresses bug 271720.
    http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271720


Diffs
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  kio/kio/http_slave_defaults.h af97cfa 
  kio/kio/kprotocolmanager.cpp 57ec696 

Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101337/diff


Testing
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Screenshots
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UserAgent [FULL]
  http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101337/s/163/
UserAgent [Default]
  http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101337/s/164/
UserAgent [Minimal]
  http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101337/s/165/


Thanks,

Dawit


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<div>Review request for kdelibs.</div>
<div>By Dawit Alemayehu.</div>





<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Description </h1>
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-moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: \
break-word;">This patch changes the default user-agent string so that it is more \
                aligned with other browsers by
    - Dropping &#39;comptiable&#39; and &#39;U&#39; from the string.
    - Making the platform string, e.g X11, mandatory part of the string.
    - Sending the OS name and machine type (i686,x86-64) by default (configurable).

Additionally the patch for kprotocolmanager.cpp also removes the manual use of \
&#39;%&#39; to append text since kdelibs is now compilable with the \
QT_USE_FAST_CONCATENATION and QT_USE_FAST_OPERATOR_PLUS flags.  
Besides being good for privacy due to less differentiation, this change should make \
it less likely that a different page will be sent sheerly based on user-agent \
sniffing. See the attached screen shot for what the full, default, and minimal \
default user-agent will look like now.</pre>  </td>
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<div style="margin-top: 1.5em;">
 <b style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Bugs: </b>


 <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271720">271720</a>


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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Diffs</b> </h1>
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 <li>kio/kio/http_slave_defaults.h <span style="color: grey">(af97cfa)</span></li>

 <li>kio/kio/kprotocolmanager.cpp <span style="color: grey">(57ec696)</span></li>

</ul>

<p><a href="http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101337/diff/" style="margin-left: \
3em;">View Diff</a></p>



<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Screenshots </h1>

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 <a href="http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101337/s/163/"><img \
src="http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/images/2011/05/11/useragent-full_1_400x100.png" \
style="border: 1px black solid;" alt="UserAgent [FULL]" /></a>

 <a href="http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101337/s/164/"><img \
src="http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/images/2011/05/11/useragent-default_1_400x100.png" \
style="border: 1px black solid;" alt="UserAgent [Default]" /></a>

 <a href="http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101337/s/165/"><img \
src="http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/images/2011/05/11/useragent-minimal_400x100.png" \
style="border: 1px black solid;" alt="UserAgent [Minimal]" /></a>

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