On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 11:12:05AM +0000, Robert Nagy wrote: > CVSROOT: /cvs > Module name: ports > Changes by: rob...@cvs.openbsd.org 2017/12/07 04:12:05 > > Modified files: > www/chromium : Makefile > www/chromium/patches: > > patch-content_browser_renderer_host_render_widget_host_view_aura_cc > patch-media_audio_BUILD_gn > patch-v8_BUILD_gn > Added files: > www/chromium/patches: patch-content_common_user_agent_cc > > Log message: > Append Linux x86_64 to the User-Agent: > > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; OpenBSD amd64; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, > like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.94 Safari/537.36 > > This is required because a lot of big service vendors are misusing the > User-Agent > to discriminate non-mainstream OS users. A good example is Google and > Microsoft > not allowing non-mainstream OS users to use features that are NOT OS > dependant, > like Google Maps full-mode or Skype web. > > All of the browsers have a proper way of checking what they support so relying > on the User-Agent string is completely stupid because what works on Linux, > will > 99% work on other operating systems as well, since the browser supports it. > (e.g. 3d acceleration) > > Instead of completely saying that we are Linux, it is enough to append Linux > to > the User-Agent platform string, so people relying on the User-Agent for > filtering, > statistics can still filter for OpenBSD. > > Everyone can thank these service vendors for fiddling with the User-Agent in > a way > that they weren't supposed to. > > discussed with deraadt@
Awesome, one less extension to install :-) -- Antoine
