In hopes of making Konqueror's default settings for the aforementioned HTTP headers inline with other browsers, I want to change the default settings for these three header as outlined below.
** Please note that this only affects the default! Each and every application can tell the ioslave what to use through the KIO meta-data system for each one of these parameters. USER-AGENT HEADER ================= OLD DEFAULT: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/4.6; Linux) KHTML/4.6.41 (like Gecko) NEW DEFAULT: Mozilla/5.0 (X11) KHTML/4.6.41 (like Gecko) Konqueror/4.6 OLD Full: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/4.6; Linux 2.6.31; x86-64; en_US) KHTML/4.6.41 (like Gecko) NEW Full: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux 2.6.31 x86-64; en_US) KHTML/4.6.41 (like Gecko) Konqueror/4.6 Changes: -------------- - Drop the "U" letter which is a vestige left from the early days of Mozilla to denote strong security support. Since all browsers now days automatically come with support for this functionality, there is no need for such letter. Instead only a "N" will be added when a browser is compiled without support for encrypted communication. - Drop the word "compatible" from the string since it is really useless. I would like to drop the "like Gecko" text as well, but I have no idea what kind of impact that would have on khtml so I opted to leave it alone. - Other than the above to the only change is to move around the order of what is inside the "( )". ACCEPT HEADER: ============== OLD: text/html, image/jpeg;q=0.9, image/png;q=0.9, text/*;q=0.9, image/*;q=0.9, */*;q=0.8 NEW: text/html, application/xhtml+xml, application/xml;q=0.9, */*;q=0.8 Changes: ------------- - Again this is intended to make the default inline with what Firefox and to a large degree Chrome send. Since */*; it is pointless to list the other preferences we have. Specially when it comes to images since Qt supports a lot of other image formats not listed here equally well. Only question is whether or not sending anything that has "/xml" in it detrimental to khtml ? Just as an FYI, by default, QtWebKit sends this same header (the firefox version). ACCEPT LANGUAGE HEADER: ======================== OLD: utf-8, utf-8;q=0.5, *;q=0.5 (see the duplicate ??) NEW: utf-8, *;q=0.5 Changes: ------------- This is a fix more than a change. Currently the language header duplicates the utf8 entry by appending the default onto whatever the application specified. The fix is to change the code to not do that. Instead it will simply append the default *;q=0.5 if it is missing from the charset value defined by the application. Input, suggestion, objections are welcome... Regards, Dawit A.
