On 24/04/06, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 06:42:30PM +0200, Piotr Engelking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> > The user-agent string:
> >
> >     Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); rv:1.8.0.2)
> >     Gecko/Debian-1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.2-3 Firefox/1.5.0.2
> >
> > violates Mozilla user-agent string specification
> > [http://www.mozilla.org/build/revised-user-agent-strings.html], since the
> > Gecko product token isn't in Gecko/YYYYMMDD format. While this requirement
> > doesn't seem to serve any useful purpose, it still may be a good idea to
> > follow it.
>
> The Gecko/YYYYMMDD format is useless, that's why we replaced it with
> more interesting value. See /usr/share/doc/firefox/changelog.Debian.gz.

Won't this cause problems for scripts that attempt to parse user-agent string?

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