Simon Fraser wrote:

> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Darin Fisher 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> That element of the UA string indicates the security level supported by 
>> the browser.  It comes from the pref: general.useragent.security, where 
>> 'N' is the default value (#define'd as UA_APPSECURITY_FALLBACK  in 
>> nsHTTPHandler.cpp).
> 
> 
> Does that mean that the Mac build used to generate these user-agent
> strings did not have PSM installed, and the others did? Or that
> there is a bug detecting PSM on the Mac when generating the 
> user-agent?
> 
> Simon

Hmm... probably a bug... not sure if PSM sets general.useragent.security 
when loaded.  The HTTP handler should probably register a callback for 
that pref, so it can update the UA string whenever it changes.  Who 
might know more about this pref?

Darin



> 
>> Simon Fraser wrote:
>> 
>>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Everingham 
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> WinNT4.0 build 2001-01-30-11-Mtrunk
>>>> 
>>>> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010130 
>>>> Netscape6/6.5
>>> 
>>>> Mac OS9 build 2001-01-30-10-Mtrunk
>>>> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; N; PPC; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010130 
>>>> Netscape6/6.5
>>> 
>>> 
>>> What does the "U;" and "N;" in the user-agent signify?
>>> 
>>> Simon
>> 



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