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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: RFC:UserAgent string in kio_http
From:       Navindra Umanee <navindra () cs ! mcgill ! ca>
Date:       2000-07-14 14:24:26
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Dawit Alemayehu <adawit@kde.org> wrote:
> a.) We now have a better method to communicate such data using Waldo's meta-data
> implementation.  kio_http simply does metaData("userAgent").  That is it.  I also want to
> change the default string, in case no user agent info is supplied
> 
> Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; kio_http $Id ; X)

I think this is a good idea.  It's not for nothing that even IE and
Opera do this.  There are definitely some sites that key their
behaviour based on the UserAgent string and if you don't follow the
above format, you may get suboptimal behaviour.

-N.

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