Derek Robert Price writes:
>
> I'm also talking about some pretty simple information. Client name &
> version perhaps. Platform I can see as invasion of privacy.
>
> As near as I know, all the web browsers send a client name and version
> as part of the HTTP protocol. I haven't heard any objections to that.
Most browsers also include the platform. For example, my version of
Netscape sets User Agent to:
Mozilla/4.7 [en] (X11; U; BSD/OS 4.0.1 i386)
And IE:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
There appears to be on-going discussion of exactly how much platform
information should be provided and whether it should be for the
compilation platform or the run-time platform. See:
<http://www.mozilla.org/build/revised-user-agent-strings.html>
-Larry Jones
Your bangs do a good job of covering up the lobotomy stitches. -- Calvin
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