From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Vibhav Pant <vibhavp@ubuntu.com>
Cc: bozhidar@batsov.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for custom user agent strings in url.el
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 04:13:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1W5AvK-0000IC-4S@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+T2Sh1Rvg5=1QnuQvg_+FUOxwA4k_uDXGbKKYwnFvJbUtjLUw@mail.gmail.com> (message from Vibhav Pant on Sun, 19 Jan 2014 15:28:45 +0530)
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The default "user agent" string should ideally be one that many users'
browsers will send, so as to give little information to web sites.
> (defun url-http-create-request (&optional ref-url)
> "Create an HTTP request for `url-http-target-url', referred to by
> REF-URL."
That looks like a doc string bug -- the first line should stand on its
own.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-20 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-19 8:10 [PATCH] Add support for custom user agent strings in url.el Vibhav Pant
2014-01-19 8:15 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2014-01-19 8:36 ` Vibhav Pant
2014-01-19 9:12 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2014-01-19 9:45 ` Vibhav Pant
2014-01-19 9:58 ` Vibhav Pant
2014-01-19 14:13 ` Vibhav Pant
2014-01-20 9:13 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2014-01-20 12:11 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2014-01-20 12:13 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2014-01-20 14:03 ` Vibhav Pant
2014-01-19 14:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-19 15:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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