[vlc-devel] [vlc-commits] commit: access_http: use only the provided user agent. ( Rémi Duraffort )

Rémi Duraffort ivoire at videolan.org
Thu Jul 29 13:08:14 CEST 2010


Le jeudi 29 juillet 2010 à 12:57:35, Rémi Denis-Courmont a écrit :
> > > Moreover, it will make it more difficult for webmaster to filter out
> > > vlc...
> > So what the point of having http-user-agent option if we add something
> > afterward anyway ?
> 
> That is how the User-Agent field is specified in the IETF RFC. Relevant components are separated by spaces, name-slash-version. I think the app is relevant, and LibVLC is relevant insofar as it is used.
That's the default user agent (name/version), but if people uses the option to
change the user agent I think they expect to control it complitely and
not only one part of it.


best regards

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