From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?R=FCdiger?= Sonderfeld Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for custom user agent strings in url.el Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:11:26 +0100 Message-ID: <3336946.K6PKXvpX2S@descartes> References: <87k3dw5r44.fsf@cthulhu-p5kpl.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390219916 30216 80.91.229.3 (20 Jan 2014 12:11:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:11:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bozhidar@batsov.com, Vibhav Pant To: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 20 13:12:00 2014 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 1W5Dhv-0008Dt-IW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:11:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51299 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5Dhu-0006g0-UX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 07:11:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50222) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5Dhk-0006f7-Ql for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 07:11:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5Dhd-0001rB-AF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 07:11:48 -0500 Original-Received: from ptmx.org ([178.63.28.110]:36532) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5Dhd-0001qq-45; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 07:11:41 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptmx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7868E24FD6; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:11:39 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at ptmx.org Original-Received: from ptmx.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ptmx.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id nIej912zDfu5; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:11:38 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from descartes.localnet (chello080108246092.7.14.vie.surfer.at [80.108.246.92]) by ptmx.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8FF83225D5; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:11:37 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: KMail/4.11.3 (Linux/3.11.0-14-generic; KDE/4.11.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 178.63.28.110 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:168775 Archived-At: 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 Use= r-agent=20 at all is probably far easier to trace than sending a commonly used Use= r- agent. Although the other headers might be a give away. The `defcustom' could provide the user with a few default suggestions f= or=20 popular User-agent strings. Regards, R=C3=BCdiger