User-Agent header (was: [PATCH] New function to send a mail to the recipient at point)

[Reiner Steib]

On Sun, Feb 24 2008, Leo wrote:

> On 2008-02-24 09:05 +0000, Reiner Steib wrote:
>> [BTW, your User-Agent header is not confirming to RFC 2616 or the
>> usefor drafts.]
>
> How to test if it is conforming to RFC2616?

Leave it to Gnus (e.g. use the list of predefined symbols in
`gnus-user-agent', see below) or read RFC 2616. ;-)

> ,----[ C-h v gnus-user-agent RET ]
> | gnus-user-agent is a variable defined in `gnus.el'.
> | Its value is 
> | "Gnus/5.130000 Emacs/23.0.60 (20080222) Fedora 8 (gnu/linux)"

IIRC, "Fedora 8" isn't allowed.  Probably "Fedora/8 (Fedora 8,
gnu/linux)" is correct.
 
> | Documentation:
> | Which information should be exposed in the User-Agent header.
> | 
> | Can be a list of symbols or a string.  Valid symbols are `gnus'
> | (show Gnus version) and `emacs' (show Emacs version).  In
> | addition to the Emacs version, you can add `codename' (show
> | (S)XEmacs codename) or either `config' (show system
> | configuration) or `type' (show system type).  If you set it to
> | a string, be sure to use a valid format, see RFC 2616.

Bye, Reiner.
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