From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for custom user agent strings in url.el Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 04:13:38 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87k3dw5r44.fsf@cthulhu-p5kpl.lan> <87iotg5pw5.fsf@cthulhu-p5kpl.lan> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390209214 1579 80.91.229.3 (20 Jan 2014 09:13:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 09:13:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bozhidar@batsov.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Vibhav Pant Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 20 10:13:42 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 1W5AvO-0002u4-Ou for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:13:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49451 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5AvO-0001kV-9v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 04:13:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50797) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5AvL-0001kQ-T7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 04:13:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5AvK-0006u4-TM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 04:13:39 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56649) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5AvK-0006u0-QE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 04:13:38 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5AvK-0000IC-4S; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 04:13:38 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Vibhav Pant on Sun, 19 Jan 2014 15:28:45 +0530) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:168769 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] 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. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.