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bug#18812: 24.4; url.el user agent does not include Emacs version
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From: |
Ted Zlatanov |
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Subject: |
bug#18812: 24.4; url.el user agent does not include Emacs version |
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Date: |
Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:48:11 -0400 |
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User-agent: |
Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (darwin) |
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 21:19:21 -0400 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
wrote:
>> The url.el functions for making HTTP requests set the User-Agent header
>> to "URL/Emacs" which is not very descriptive. It would be helpful to
>> include the Emacs version, at least.
SM> Other people feel like it's already too descriptive. Why should all
SM> Emacs users constantly tell the whole world exactly which Emacs version
SM> they're running?
Web browsers do. It helps web developers and is not particularly
sensitive if only the major.minor version is used (without too much detail).
Ted