[9196] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Netscape 2.0 beta MS windows 95 virus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Meyer)
Mon Nov 6 23:24:19 1995
In-Reply-To: <v02130506acc3e30d16db@[137.103.65.3]>
From: mwm@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer)
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 95 20:13:35 PST
To: www-talk@www10.w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
> The least we could do is come up with a proposed standard for the UserAgent
> field though.
You mean like section 10.16 in draft-ietf-http-v10-spec-04.txt, which
specifies that the User-Agent header should contain one or more
products or comments, and section 3.7 of the same document, which
specifies that a product is a product-token, a slash, and a
product-version? Token and comment are likewise defined in that
document.
Of course, until people either 1) stop doing content negotiation based
on user-agent, or 2) start paying attention to browsers other than
Moscape, this is immaterial - authors (and users) of browsers that are
going to lie about the user-agent in order to get the best document
they can.
<mike
