From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vibhav Pant Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el? Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 10:40:16 +0530 Message-ID: References: <56F42269.10400@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1460265024 3183 80.91.229.3 (10 Apr 2016 05:10:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 05:10:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?UTF-8?B?Q2zDqW1lbnQgUGl0LS1DbGF1ZGVs?= , Emacs developers Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 10 07:10:23 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ap7df-0007yc-0l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Apr 2016 07:10:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33771 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ap7dd-0000I7-Nq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Apr 2016 01:10:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39388) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ap7da-0000Fu-6V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Apr 2016 01:10:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ap7dZ-0005tf-9U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Apr 2016 01:10:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-io0-x22f.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c06::22f]:32907) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ap7dZ-0005tb-3M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Apr 2016 01:10:17 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-io0-x22f.google.com with SMTP id o126so151620955iod.0 for ; Sat, 09 Apr 2016 22:10:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:cc; bh=qswc9pTkZY1IlpArbfHJ/dLRHjooOsgDDv5LPaGuf+E=; b=FjjPSGRJ7z9kbdibmCeV85tYuAqaIISmFBUKpJ54nlsHzDNh8JQE4ATLep7NROdx7F gO+3jyZ12yDg5grLnorin6r36k/yucvk86S5vM+N8mCiXMH9R8IhykFyYiYjlUXe9/il yqkNzyXzBp1IiYDHBhggBTyiLYQvoGo4MHYiNkNUbeRNfcjI9JXBZVnxIXpjpOlYAJe9 orGmKcIEcmttqhS/XYYfUrbgbkAkEUQQNaiFE9+OSHvdnA4MU6HTsOXSgrMUzQXvuJiW sCTEgLG7643N9vWCebqNjS7FFrT8aMsn2BEGPwNss2TGjkhAqCHJIQEEA+DDVV7CRiDP IBJQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:cc; bh=qswc9pTkZY1IlpArbfHJ/dLRHjooOsgDDv5LPaGuf+E=; b=e4KhiOANgn4ayHfdjQsdDcaa5awMPlS9Eooy/HNk85vyF6DfxtSrjpnJ4e9pC49DUO qdKWViYz6wKepXDR3wig/H5KDGbtpCwEhjo2oJlG4INCRDi/3Zx5u2hjNrzjTJ43WJJR D+JheMwr8yFm1dVY/0s9V61S2IX6tFspdAtxpTSFXwJ2BscPoJxpg0nelxwDRfvPO5hd wsKKoSwsPVoDqEtqIjN0gxzL50V+gobYZkwp6Y4Czk/hFHxbxlRA+WX51fc9QhQ4HhQD t/xP+SNud6Ic+JWCvG+zJE/43/c+Kgf7mjEf4mtWVoGstY6BFuOMEK0P5Fk2LHuNSS2G 5zWw== X-Gm-Message-State: AD7BkJL4FAkhG9rBsFrEfdxhRe8tiuRjhMB5qaYYP2A3ahEPXc9vpNp/Wd600ua3rzZByQIhobXdQAvleNSfng== X-Received: by 10.107.3.193 with SMTP id e62mt19337443ioi.40.1460265016503; Sat, 09 Apr 2016 22:10:16 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.79.17.132 with HTTP; Sat, 9 Apr 2016 22:10:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4001:c06::22f X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:202834 Archived-At: ERC exposes emacs' version number in quit messages already: "(Quit: ERC (IRC client for Emacs 25.0.50.3))" So I don't see why there should be an exception for url. On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 4:47 AM, Steve Purcell wrote: > As a MELPA maintainer, I'd be very keen to be able to provide users and > package authors with package downloads stats broken down by emacs > version and/or platform. That could also be done with adding a `X-Emacs-Version` header to HTTP requests made to package repositories, if we still don't want to expose the user agent. On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 4:47 AM, Steve Purcell wrote: > As a MELPA maintainer, I'd be very keen to be able to provide users and > package authors with package downloads stats broken down by emacs > version and/or platform. > > I don't personally see any tangible privacy concerns with this proposal; > it would be fine for this specific use case to set a more informative > User-Agent header only for requests initiated by package.el if that's an > issue. > -- Vibhav Pant vibhavp@gmail.com