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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
