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From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: Changes committed gnus/lisp (ChangeLog gnus-msg.el gnus-sum.el)
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 00:41:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ylk7g85xyp.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ptq0bkmm.fsf@unix.home> (deskpot@myrealbox.com's message of "Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:33:21 +0300")

Vasily Korytov <deskpot@myrealbox.com> writes:

> One more related XEmacs-related patch. You may notice the difference in
> the User-Agent header of this message and the previous.

The one in this latest message is wrong, though.

User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) XEmacs/21.4 "Portable Code"
 (linux)

"Portable Code" is not a product/version pair.  Anything that isn't a
product/version pair needs to be a comment.

The User-Agent header in the mail or news context isn't really
standardized as such, but it's essentially an adoption of the User-Agent
header from HTTP.  From RFC 2616:

14.43 User-Agent

   The User-Agent request-header field contains information about the
   user agent originating the request. This is for statistical purposes,
   the tracing of protocol violations, and automated recognition of user
   agents for the sake of tailoring responses to avoid particular user
   agent limitations. User agents SHOULD include this field with
   requests. The field can contain multiple product tokens (section 3.8)
   and comments identifying the agent and any subproducts which form a
   significant part of the user agent. By convention, the product tokens
   are listed in order of their significance for identifying the
   application.

       User-Agent     = "User-Agent" ":" 1*( product | comment )

   Example:

       User-Agent: CERN-LineMode/2.15 libwww/2.17b3

where product is:

3.8 Product Tokens

   Product tokens are used to allow communicating applications to
   identify themselves by software name and version. Most fields using
   product tokens also allow sub-products which form a significant part
   of the application to be listed, separated by white space. By
   convention, the products are listed in order of their significance
   for identifying the application.

       product         = token ["/" product-version]
       product-version = token

   Examples:

       User-Agent: CERN-LineMode/2.15 libwww/2.17b3
       Server: Apache/0.8.4

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-10  8:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E18h9EM-0004hv-00@quimby.gnus.org>
2003-02-07 20:05 ` Jesper Harder
2003-02-07 20:29   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-08  3:43     ` Vasily Korytov
2003-02-08  5:13     ` Jesper Harder
2003-02-08 20:47       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-09  3:07         ` Vasily Korytov
2003-02-09  3:20           ` Vasily Korytov
2003-02-10  8:33           ` Vasily Korytov
2003-02-10  8:41             ` Russ Allbery [this message]
2003-02-10  9:10               ` Vasily Korytov
2003-02-11  1:32           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-11  5:10             ` Jesper Harder
2003-02-11 13:23               ` User-Agent string (was: Changes committed gnus/lisp (ChangeLog gnus-msg.el gnus-sum.el)) Reiner Steib
2003-02-12 10:19                 ` User-Agent string Vasily Korytov
2003-02-22 20:27                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-24 21:12                   ` Reiner Steib
2003-02-24 22:18                     ` Vasily Korytov
2003-02-27 14:50                       ` Reiner Steib
2003-02-27 19:33                         ` Vasily Korytov
2003-02-28 19:26                         ` Reiner Steib
2003-03-01 23:06                           ` Frank Haun
2003-03-03 16:18                             ` Reiner Steib
2003-02-25 10:26                     ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-11  7:23             ` Changes committed gnus/lisp (ChangeLog gnus-msg.el gnus-sum.el) Vasily Korytov
2003-02-22 20:28               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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