On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 07:25:55AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Paul Wise: > > > Probably the best solution is to get all the web browsers out there > > (especially Firefox) to drop the User-Agent HTTP header and not send > > it to web servers. It is abused way too often by web applications and > > never really was a good idea in the first place. If someone is on the > > whatwg/w3c lists and would like to bring this up there, that would be > > great. > > It's also available from Javascript, and you have somehow deal with > diverging internal APIs until there's just a single browser codebase > (and we're apparently heading into the opposite direction).
But then you can check APIs availability, instead of User Agent strings. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
