Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > I think url should do what IceCat does: send a user-agent string that
  > > is widely encountered on the net, to thwart identification of users.

  > Does it really do that? Where is it documented?
  > On my machine, it seems to consistently send "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; 
rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0".

It is not clear which one you are talking about.  Are you talking
about IceCat?  If so, yes, that user-agent string is designed to equal
what many other machines on the net actually send.

  > In any case, I don't think this point is relevant to the package.el part of 
this discussion.

Isn't url-user-agent used for ALL sites?  If so, the question of what to use
is not part of a package.el discussion.

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