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Re: cutting down the user-agent

From: Aleksandar Lazic <al-curlusers_at_none.at>
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 20:02:48 +0200

Hi Daniel,

On 08-05-2012 19:31, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> Hi friends,
>
> I'm considering restricting the User-agent: header that curl sends by
> default to something much less verbose and I'm interested in your
> opinions!

[snipp]

> "curl -V" will still show the version info as usual.
>
> So, is there any downsides with this that I haven't thought about or
> just a reason for not doing this? Anyone thinks this is a good idea?

I think this is a good idea.
+1

How difficult is it to add a

--curl-useragent-token

option like

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#servertokens

Cheers
Aleks
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Received on 2012-05-08