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Re: Sherlock's User-Agent header

We didn't put Sherlock into the user-agent by default because some web servers or web services might act funny if we did. Claiming we're "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Mac_PowerPC)" gives us the best shot at good behavior on the server side.

As you noted, channel developers can muck with the user-agent for their http-requests. Also, provided it's not detrimental to the functioning of the web service, you can append a bogus/unused parameter to your URLs... e.g. &sherlock=1... for usage tracking purposes.

--Jessica




On Friday, December 13, 2002, at 11:39  AM, Jeff Adams wrote:

Hi,

I noticed that it seems Sherlock's http requests use
a User-Agent header of:

User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Mac_PowerPC)

by default.
Is there any desire or benefit to add
a Sherlock; comment in the User-Agent it uses so
one can more easily track Sherlock channel usage on web sites?

I guess we can add to the User-Agent ourselves in our own channel,
but it might be nice to add a default unique global description?

Just a suggestion
Jeff
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