📅 Original date posted:2011-11-05
🗒️ Summary of this message: Christian Decker opposes using user-agent strings as it may lead to developers making communication choices based on client type, but some find it valuable for bug detection.
📝 Original message:On Saturday, November 05, 2011 12:17:58 PM Christian Decker wrote:
> Sorry for shooting this approach down, but I'm against it. User-agent
> strings are an extremely bad idea as it would lead developers to start
> making communication choices depending on the client type.
This can be necessary in some cases. What happens when some popular client is
found with a subtle bug, and cannot otherwise be differentiated from other
similar-functionality clients? I have found User-Agent very valuable when
dealing with the wide variety of miner bugs when I have enabled new
functionality/behaviour on Eligius.
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2023-06-07 02:37:33
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