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Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number?
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Vibhav Pant |
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Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el? |
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Sun, 10 Apr 2016 10:40:16 +0530 |
ERC exposes emacs' version number in quit messages already:
"(Quit: ERC (IRC client for Emacs 25.0.50.3))"
So I don't see why there should be an exception for url.
On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 4:47 AM, Steve Purcell <address@hidden> wrote:
> As a MELPA maintainer, I'd be very keen to be able to provide users and
> package authors with package downloads stats broken down by emacs
> version and/or platform.
That could also be done with adding a `X-Emacs-Version` header to HTTP
requests made to package repositories, if we still don't want to
expose the user
agent.
On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 4:47 AM, Steve Purcell <address@hidden> wrote:
> As a MELPA maintainer, I'd be very keen to be able to provide users and
> package authors with package downloads stats broken down by emacs
> version and/or platform.
>
> I don't personally see any tangible privacy concerns with this proposal;
> it would be fine for this specific use case to set a more informative
> User-Agent header only for requests initiated by package.el if that's an
> issue.
>
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Vibhav Pant
address@hidden
- Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?, (continued)
- Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?, Richard Stallman, 2016/04/04
- Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2016/04/04
- Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?, Richard Stallman, 2016/04/05
- Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2016/04/05
- Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2016/04/05
- Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?, Richard Stallman, 2016/04/05
- Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2016/04/06
- Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?, Richard Stallman, 2016/04/06
- Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2016/04/07
- Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?, Richard Stallman, 2016/04/07
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