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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Phil Hagelberg <phil@hagelb.org>
Cc: 18812@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18812: 24.4; url.el user agent does not include Emacs version
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 12:07:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbnp1pi9m.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2zjcld1es.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:48:11 -0400")

> Web browsers do.

I know, and I don't like it either.

> It helps web developers

I think it only helps them in the sense "helps to dig themselves
further into a hole, instead of backing up towards the light" ;-)

> and is not particularly sensitive if only the major.minor version is
> used (without too much detail).

It wouldn't be the end of the world, indeed.
But I still haven't heard of any concrete reason why it would be
beneficial.  The only argument I've seen so far amounts to a handwavy
"would be helpful", which I find rather unconvincing.


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-24 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-23 21:32 bug#18812: 24.4; url.el user agent does not include Emacs version Phil Hagelberg
2014-10-24  1:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-24 13:48   ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-24 16:07     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-10-24 16:21       ` Phil Hagelberg
2014-10-24 18:51         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-24 20:37           ` Phil Hagelberg
2014-10-24 19:17     ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-12-25 19:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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