📅 Original date posted:2011-11-05 🗒️ Summary of this message: Christian Decker opposes using user-agent strings as it may lead to developers making communication choices based on client type, but some find it valuable for bug detection. 📝 Original message:On Saturday, November 05, 2011 12:17:58 PM Christian Decker wrote: > Sorry for shooting this approach down, but I'm against it. User-agent > strings are an extremely bad idea as it would lead developers to start > making communication choices depending on the client type. This can be necessary in some cases. What happens when some popular client is found with a subtle bug, and cannot otherwise be differentiated from other similar-functionality clients? I have found User-Agent very valuable when dealing with the wide variety of miner bugs when I have enabled new functionality/behaviour on Eligius.