If you want this fixed, you need to file an RFC for it. This is not
the purpose of the user agent as specified in the RFCs that I provided.
On 05/26/2010 12:18 AM, ethana2 wrote:
> Because useragents are currently unreliable, they have to rely on a
> *second* page asking the *user* to identify th
Again, the point of a user agent is for rendered content to be proper,
not necessarily downloadable content. Google is doing this correctly.
On 05/26/2010 12:20 AM, ethana2 wrote:
> If you think "linux" is the proper way to identify a platform, I
> trust you'll help me get stock Firefox and Epiph
It's not about the OS, but the platform. This page correctly shows me
the page for Linux.
On 05/25/2010 11:52 PM, ethana2 wrote:
> Then it is important that my browser identifies my OS as Ubuntu. To
> see this in proper use, see:
>
> google.com/chrome
>
Are you seeing that? I tried in 4 differe
A user agent is to tell the web server what type of browser is
requesting content so that appropriate content can be returned.
Here are the related RFCs:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1945.txt
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2068.txt
On 05/25/2010 10:24 PM, ethana2 wrote:
> Please tell me what useragent
First of all the Firefox builds that we make already have Ubuntu in
them since they're *our* builds. As for the other browsers, we should
follow the conventions set by upstream for their User Agents. User
agents are not made for what you want to do.
On 05/24/2010 01:55 PM, ethana2 wrote:
> That
