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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: RFC:UserAgent string in kio_http
From:       Alex Zepeda <jazepeda () pacbell ! net>
Date:       2000-07-14 21:19:56
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On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Navindra Umanee wrote:

> 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.

Bullshit. Prove to me that sites work better when you've got Mozilla in
your user agent string.  We're not TRYING to be windows, are we?

- alex

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