Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I also thought that there was no need for this level of complexity. > (BTW, some of the patch is changes Seth has made for other purposes, e.g. > that to memory.c, so please no one apply all of it.)
*blush* sorry about that. I made the final diff from a src tree on another machine and it was dirty. memory.c should NOT have been touched by my patch. > I'd be happy for R to just identify itself as 'R', which seems allowed: > (http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html). But I am a bit > concerned that sites may not just require the field but also require a > particular format (even though W3C does not). As long as it is going to identify itself, I think there is value in having it provide version, platform, OS info. Given the concern that some sites that currently work may stop working (example?), perhaps making this a global option is a good compromise. The option could be httpRequestHeader and the default value would be as proposed in my patch. A NULL value would result in the current behavior, no extra header info in the request. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
