Support for User-Agent?

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Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 21:41:44 +0200
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From: "Christopher J. McRae" <mcrae@ora.com>
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Subject: Support for User-Agent?
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  We need the User-Agent header for a number of reasons - most particularly
for remaining backwards-compatible with older clients as the technology
continues to develop.  I don't believe that Mosaic currently sends it, and I
know that violaWWW does.  What about the other clients?  Is there any will out
there to add this anytime soon?

For more info about User-Agent, see
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Protocols/HTTP/HTRQ_Headers.html#user-agent

By the way, 'Referer:'  would be nice too.

Thanks
chris
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