Re: User-Agent string

[Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de>]

On Mon, Feb 24 2003, Vasily Korytov wrote:

>>>>>> "RS" == Reiner Steib writes:
>  RS> On Sat, Feb 22 2003, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
[...]
>  >>> (defcustom gnus-user-agent 'full
[...]
>  >> I think this makes most sense -- letting the user decide.

While writing the code I forgot, that my suggestion was to use
system-type as default.  Sorry.

| (defcustom gnus-user-agent 'full [...]
|   :type '(choice (item :tag "Show full info" full) ;; system-type

> Maybe, we should consider replacing 'full with 'emacs-gnus-type (that
> is, no system-configuration exposion). 
[...]
> 2. As it was said somewhere in the thread, system-configuration may
>    reveal some security-sensitive information. 

I did a quick Google search for »User-Agent: Oort Gnus msvc«.  Now I
agree that the default might expose too much (in case of Windows, at
least) and should be changed to use system-type only.

Unless there are objections, I shall change the default to use
system-type and leave system-configuration as an option.

>    Besides, it's sometimes very igly.

igly[1]? Did you mean `bigly' or `ugly'?  The `xemacs-codename' part
may also be quite long.  (Mozilla's User-Agent string too.)

Bye, Reiner.

[1] <URL: http://dict.leo.org/?search=igly&searchLoc=-1>;
,----[ dict igly ]
| No definitions found for "igly", perhaps you mean:
| web1913:  Ugly  Idly  Illy  Inly
| wn:  ugly  idly  iglu
| foldoc:  IGL
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