[11423] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
RE: user agent label format
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Masinter)
Sat Sep 11 02:34:24 1999
From: "Larry Masinter" <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
To: "Dmitry Beransky" <dberansky@ucsd.edu>, <www-talk@w3.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 23:25:53 PDT
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990909182017.00bb7ae0@biomail.ucsd.edu>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
> Just curious... is there an official standard or at least a recommendation
> for the format of HTTP's User-Agent header?
RFC 2616 Section 14.43 defines the "User-Agent" field as a sequence of
product tokens, defined in 3.8 as token/product-version, and gives
an example of CERN-LineMode/2.15 libwww/2.17b3.
