On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:02:39AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:33:42PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> (10/11/2009): > > > Let me suggest adding "(like Firefox/3.5)", but I'm not sure how the > > > crappy sites parsing the version number will deal with the closing > > > parenthesis. > > > > What about “foo/bar -- similar to baz/quux” to avoid parenthesing > > issues? Or “like” or “similar to” or “almost like”. > > > > Or if “--” is causing grief too, and only name/version are > > desired: “foo/bar similar/to baz/quux”? Uglier but… > > but not conformant with what user agent strings are supposed to look like > (which is a series of "name/version" possibly followed by "(comment)")
Well, instead of speculating I tried it: I set general.useragent.extra.firefoxComment to "(like Firefox/<blah>; Debian-<blah>)" and checked some sites I know to be sh^W picky: Bing maps: pass Yahoo BrowserPlus: pass Google Gears: pass Sky TV listings: pass My lousy bank: pass If everyone reading this discussion picked four or five sites they know to filter user agents, Mike would soon have an idea of whether this UA is acceptable for a large enough majority to make it worthwhile. -- Jonathan Wiltshire, wondering if he can have change from 2c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
