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: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el? Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2016 10:53:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <56F42269.10400@gmail.com> <05663DCE-3E5B-41E2-8657-460B2D013B49@lunaryorn.com> <570280D9.6030706@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1459868022 4587 80.91.229.3 (5 Apr 2016 14:53:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 14:53:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit--Claudel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 05 16:53:33 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 1anSMH-0008CH-1v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 16:53:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37515 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anSMG-0002vs-KB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 10:53:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39263) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anSM9-0002ps-Do for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 10:53:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anSM8-0002rT-F8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 10:53:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49863) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anSM7-0002qt-2r; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 10:53:23 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1anSM6-00051o-H9; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 10:53:22 -0400 In-reply-to: <570280D9.6030706@gmail.com> (message from =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9?= =?utf-8?Q?ment?= Pit--Claudel on Mon, 4 Apr 2016 15:57:29 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:202737 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. ]]] > > I think url should do what IceCat does: send a user-agent string that > > is widely encountered on the net, to thwart identification of users. > Does it really do that? Where is it documented? > On my machine, it seems to consistently send "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0". It is not clear which one you are talking about. Are you talking about IceCat? If so, yes, that user-agent string is designed to equal what many other machines on the net actually send. > In any case, I don't think this point is relevant to the package.el part of this discussion. Isn't url-user-agent used for ALL sites? If so, the question of what to use is not part of a package.el discussion. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.