Bug#484121: tasksel: let's sync on the GNOME task

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Wed Jun 25 13:51:50 UTC 2008


On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 03:40:53PM +0200, Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > In the case of kazehakase, galeon and epiphany, rendering-wise, it is
> > also 99.9% Firefox. Do you suggest they replace their user-agent, too?
> 
>  Well perhaps we can copy 99.9% of the firefox user-agent string and
>  append the current information in an ignored part of the user-agent?  I
>  don't know how user-agent parsing is commonly implemented, but perhaps
>  we could hide the real browser information a bit more to match the most
>  common Firefox checks.

The usual crap is basic substring match. But if we start adding cruft
today, we will end up with more cruft in a few years, when it will be
be necessary to match user agent sniffing for $OTHER_BROWSER. We already
have Mozilla/5.0 for this stupid reason, and it's not going to disappear.
Endorsing stupid user agent sniffing could also mean we should remove Linux
from the UA and put Windows instead, as some really stupid site prevent
Linux users to go in.

Mike



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