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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 18812@debbugs.gnu.org, Phil Hagelberg <phil@hagelb.org>
Subject: bug#18812: 24.4; url.el user agent does not include Emacs version
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:48:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2zjcld1es.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvy4s6tgdr.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 23 Oct 2014 21:19:21 -0400")

On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 21:19:21 -0400 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote: 

>> The url.el functions for making HTTP requests set the User-Agent header
>> to "URL/Emacs" which is not very descriptive.  It would be helpful to
>> include the Emacs version, at least.

SM> Other people feel like it's already too descriptive.  Why should all
SM> Emacs users constantly tell the whole world exactly which Emacs version
SM> they're running?

Web browsers do.  It helps web developers and is not particularly
sensitive if only the major.minor version is used (without too much detail).

Ted





  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-24 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-23 21:32 bug#18812: 24.4; url.el user agent does not include Emacs version Phil Hagelberg
2014-10-24  1:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-24 13:48   ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2014-10-24 16:07     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-24 16:21       ` Phil Hagelberg
2014-10-24 18:51         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-24 20:37           ` Phil Hagelberg
2014-10-24 19:17     ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-12-25 19:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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