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Title : Unified User-Agent String
Author : Mateusz Karcz
Filename : draft-karcz-uuas-01.txt
Pages : 9
Date : 2014-11-10
Abstract:
User-Agent is a HTTP request-header field. It contains information
about the user agent originating the request, which is often used by
servers to help identify the scope of reported interoperability
problems, to work around or tailor responses to avoid particular user
agent limitations, and for analytics regarding browser or operating
system use. Over the years contents of this field got complicated
and ambiguous. That was the reaction for sending altered version of
websites to web browsers other than popular ones. During the
development of the WWW, authors of the new web browsers used to
construct User-Agent strings similar to Netscape's one. Nowadays
contents of the User-Agent field are much longer than 15 years ago.
This Memo proposes the Uniform User-Agent String as a way to simplify
the User-Agent field contents, while maintaining the previous
possibility of their use.
The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-karcz-uuas/
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