Re: [XHR] Setting the User-Agent header

2012-09-06 Thread Robin Berjon
On 05/09/2012 06:03 , Mark Nottingham wrote: That's unfortunate, because part of the intent of the UA header is to identify the software making the request, for debugging / tracing purposes. Given that lots of libraries generate XHR requests, it would be natural for them to identify

Re: [XHR] Setting the User-Agent header

2012-09-06 Thread Tobie Langel
On 9/5/12 12:33 PM, Robin Berjon ro...@w3.org wrote: On 05/09/2012 06:03 , Mark Nottingham wrote: That's unfortunate, because part of the intent of the UA header is to identify the software making the request, for debugging / tracing purposes. Given that lots of libraries generate XHR

Re: [XHR] Setting the User-Agent header

2012-09-06 Thread Cameron Jones
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Robin Berjon ro...@w3.org wrote: On 05/09/2012 06:03 , Mark Nottingham wrote: That's unfortunate, because part of the intent of the UA header is to identify the software making the request, for debugging / tracing purposes. Given that lots of libraries

Re: [XHR] Setting the User-Agent header

2012-09-05 Thread Glenn Adams
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Mark Nottingham m...@mnot.net wrote: The current draft of XHR2 doesn't allow clients to set the UA header. Presumably, by clients you mean client-side script, and not the [client] implementation of the UA. That's unfortunate, because part of the intent of

[XHR] Setting the User-Agent header

2012-09-04 Thread Mark Nottingham
The current draft of XHR2 doesn't allow clients to set the UA header. That's unfortunate, because part of the intent of the UA header is to identify the software making the request, for debugging / tracing purposes. Given that lots of libraries generate XHR requests, it would be natural for

Re: [XHR] Setting the User-Agent header

2012-09-04 Thread Rob Manson
+1 roBman On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 14:03:35 +1000 Mark Nottingham m...@mnot.net wrote: The current draft of XHR2 doesn't allow clients to set the UA header. That's unfortunate, because part of the intent of the UA header is to identify the software making the request, for debugging / tracing