Comment 1 for bug 1366781

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Stephen Lyons (slysven) wrote :

We could produce the modification to do this quite easily to comply with RFC2616 {http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt} but the questions are:
* should Mudlet's UA string begin with "Mozilla/5.0" - I think it has to, but it must include additional stuff to make it clear that it is NOT the famous browser but something with some behaviour in common (which I think is a comment in '(' ')''s such as "(Mudlet/3.0.0)" ) on the other hand we may wish to limit the amount of version information for "User Agent Sniffing" to, e.g. no more than major and minor numbers to prevent too much user information from being revealed, so what do we choose?
* the second non-comment component seems to be the rendering platform - I'd need to do more research to pronounce on this but I suspect it may be something like "WebKit/?.?" so what is the right thing?
* do we need to provide the user with a way to change this string if they so desire, and know what they are doing?