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Opened 9 years ago
Closed 9 years ago
#232 closed design (fixed)
User-Agent guidelines
| Reported by: | mnot@… | Owned by: | mnot@… |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 12 |
| Component: | p2-semantics | Severity: | Active WG Document |
| Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
UA strings have become quite long, which makes requests bigger than necessary, can reveal too much information about the user (including allowing them to be "fingerprinted"), and potentially can encourage inappropriate sniffing.
Guidance should be provided regarding what's appropriate / inappropriate in a UA string, and the privacy aspect should be added to Security Considerations.
See also:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572650 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/03/23/introducing-ie9-s-user-agent-string.aspx https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Change History (7)
comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by mnot@…
- Owner set to mnot@…
comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by mnot@…
- Milestone changed from unassigned to 12
comment:3 Changed 9 years ago by mnot@…
comment:4 Changed 9 years ago by mnot@…
- Resolution set to incorporated
- Status changed from new to closed
comment:5 Changed 9 years ago by julian.reschke@…
comment:6 Changed 9 years ago by mnot@…
- Resolution incorporated deleted
- Status changed from closed to reopened
comment:7 Changed 9 years ago by mnot@…
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from reopened to closed
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From [1032]:
Expound upon appropriate use and content of User-Agent; addresses #232.