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Re: trunk r118293: url-http.el: introduce url-user-agent
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: trunk r118293: url-http.el: introduce url-user-agent |
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Wed, 05 Nov 2014 11:56:38 -0500 |
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On Wed, 05 Nov 2014 17:23:12 +0100 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
wrote:
LMI> Teodor Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
>> +(defcustom url-user-agent (format "User-Agent: %sURL/%s\r\n"
>> + (if url-package-name
>> + (concat url-package-name "/"
>> + url-package-version " ")
>> + "") url-version)
LMI> Last time this was suggested, the discussion concluded with the decision
LMI> not to add this, since this is information leakage that helps track
LMI> users.
This just takes the existing string and makes it a defcustom variable,
without leaking more information than before. See Bug#16498 and the full
patch for details :)
Ted