From: "Rüdiger Sonderfeld" <ruediger@c-plusplus.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org
Cc: bozhidar@batsov.com, Vibhav Pant <vibhavp@ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for custom user agent strings in url.el
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:11:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3336946.K6PKXvpX2S@descartes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1W5AvK-0000IC-4S@fencepost.gnu.org>
On Monday 20 January 2014 04:13:38 Richard Stallman wrote:
> The default "user agent" string should ideally be one that many users'
> browsers will send, so as to give little information to web sites.
It should at least do so for the `paranoid' setting. Not sending a User-agent
at all is probably far easier to trace than sending a commonly used User-
agent. Although the other headers might be a give away.
The `defcustom' could provide the user with a few default suggestions for
popular User-agent strings.
Regards,
Rüdiger
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-20 12:11 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
2014-01-20 12:11 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld [this message]
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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