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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Omit User-Agent: header by default
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Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> writes:

> The User-Agent: header can be fun and interesting, but it also leaks
> quite a bit of information about the user and their software stack.
>

No objections in principle, but someone (TM) needs to fix up the
resulting failures in the test suite.

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