On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Raphael Geissert <geiss...@debian.org> wrote:
> I can't think of a better way to stop this ridiculous UA mess. It has to > stop, this silliness has lasted too many years already. A better way would bring on the User-Agent flag day, where all the browser vendors turn off submitting user agents on a specific day (say 2010-10-10). As for how to achieve that, some ideas: Get the IETF HTTP-WG to look at deprecating User-Agent: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/httpbis-charter.html It appears that there is an ongoing effort to revise HTTP/1.1, it would be nice to take advantage of this and get User-Agent removed from or deprecated in the revision of HTTP/1.1. Propose a User-Agent flag day on the WHATWG implementors list: http://lists.whatwg.org/listinfo.cgi/implementors-whatwg.org I'm not involved in the IETF or WHATWG, but I hope someone reading this thread can do something about this. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
