In article <ah6jos$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
 Jay Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 17.07.02 22:43, Ben Bucksch Replied As Follows:
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> > As Mozilla used User-Agent only, that's what is being displayed.
> > 
> > Yes, you could display both or either, but it's a hidden pref only 
> > anyways, and any addition supposedly makes the code slower (at least 
> > that's what mscott said).
> 
> I'm basically interested in just what the difference is between x-mailer
> and user_agent, if any, and why one would choose to display one over the
> other.

It's "User-Agent" not "User_Agent".  The difference is that UA has a
defined syntax which makes it possible to parse it.  In news X-Mailer
is mainly used by older versions of Netscape.

As for why one over the other -- generally it shouldn't be a problem,
it should be either/or not both.

-- 
J.B. Moreno

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