Which raises far more serious security concerns than reporting browser capabilities.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: Bug-wget [[email protected]] on behalf of Bruno Haible [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, February 24, 2020 6:42 AM To: [email protected]; Tim Ruehsen Cc: bug-wget Subject: Re: [bug #57884] wget reveals my operating system to the server [email protected] wrote: > I wonder about the reason given: "To avoid compatibility issues." > That was - if I recall correctly - the reason for having the string > to start with: So that servers can format pages to suit the capabilities > of the browser and version used. That was how web applications were written 15-20 years ago. 10 years ago, the browser capabilities are queried by the JavaScript toolkit [1][2]. Nowadays, they prefer feature detection in JavaScript. Bruno [1] https://secure-web.cisco.com/1yxilmEYA0e_5D6kvA8W5Cqm4kLz7h7_Ye2VnfxQYqkm9N5qlYZSFt6ngcSYQysbe7ePDJeVOpzlAGq44PHRXdWMlXd6AozIn2B-QQ00LfnnlSynWCurXgcAyVxpnW-4s70vww8NvO8jBboJnb0vcvOoY4Rx_k9ak4zmgPbkDkmRc5OF5X7GXC5Sllh9M_A89zAoTeJ4Q5aHOU5M7io_xkP2-SV1t67Emos6BKN0Eixj9mejKPe27JFKXBVpgIzeXquux9HMR3XLEHe67qd5ojjG8LDkYJmPldP9JAz31DHH-WIJBk3RKoX6JyvOjzZjYCCw8itfdbd_0tS5m157ff-kv08SLGrOIQgjexjO7_zyer_-ihCJubx7krfmWMXGk8wwusXzNU3LtVCyYfDWC5cDJcGIpEP5GQ79aB23QXwkcLkZUEu03lkFPOXOPVWpY/https%3A%2F%2Fdojotoolkit.org%2Freference-guide%2F1.7%2Fquickstart%2Fbrowser-sniffing.html [2] https://secure-web.cisco.com/1cdYJDVpsOUXTFN9ygkgkR4_DBO4vlgE2j2QphPYaQgLlsortmJpgrLdRCbCoQgTsynxSE5GISz85Qp1ck_jjAz0M4hrOQ5CHKVoXqtu11b50PX3AoxjXLI2VeCC_8_G5GHMYQxp32nRo5PYUX3yHcmHZYRjut_xzl7nWNWc4Eb0adTaI1r3raH9dBt1y_yn14Uk5U1Z27FhC_0DLCHG0Hx-mTj4tawa4dcVTUYfG8kXPHWqbvCzOQnITtFd7SCeJhHqcaM88nnVPn6MgmzAYnFkRQYgnj02brU4ODRHpIxCKd9oXc6J9gDoAB7dXs8SDxiLCrd3cyd_fbDRf8BlAlMg8xWvED1-4LV3Juv0xMN-4NIh6W3uBRoAdr6fI0iPO_WoaitaKdbrc852h-5hTjf6bXX7foXMoI8-iGl5IravBl05HyOXrugDaZ8rQ1VlD/https%3A%2F%2Fapi.jquery.com%2FjQuery.browser%2F
