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| author | Thomas Groman <tgroman@nuegia.net> | 2020-12-17 02:10:09 -0800 |
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| committer | Thomas Groman <tgroman@nuegia.net> | 2020-12-17 02:10:09 -0800 |
| commit | a0c9e3200470c86563d6eff47156eff24bfd1491 (patch) | |
| tree | 18d47c32a189be82aec4ce517d33ffaf51ab2b01 /netwerk/protocol | |
| parent | e8dada8eff0b36a98b514af6adc039d2920a2109 (diff) | |
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Don't send a User-Agent by default
Diffstat (limited to 'netwerk/protocol')
| -rw-r--r-- | netwerk/protocol/http/nsHttpHandler.cpp | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/netwerk/protocol/http/nsHttpHandler.cpp b/netwerk/protocol/http/nsHttpHandler.cpp index 7a29e041b..91c3ec49f 100644 --- a/netwerk/protocol/http/nsHttpHandler.cpp +++ b/netwerk/protocol/http/nsHttpHandler.cpp @@ -451,10 +451,20 @@ nsHttpHandler::AddStandardRequestHeaders(nsHttpRequestHead *request, { nsresult rv; +/* The "User-Agent header is not used for it's original purpose of tracking + * malfuctioning software but instead abused 99.9999999% of the time to do + * fingerprinting, mass survailance, and anticompetive software vendor + * descrimination. Most vendors just hardcode something pretending to be + * Mozilla 5.0 here anyways when they are obvious not Mozilla 5.0 so we just + * get rid of it. It's perfectly within RFC HTTP1.1 spec to not supply + * this header and it says it's a SHOULD not MUST. + * Use general.useragent.override.<site> for compat workarounds if need be. + * // Add the "User-Agent" header rv = request->SetHeader(nsHttp::User_Agent, UserAgent(), false, nsHttpHeaderArray::eVarietyRequestDefault); if (NS_FAILED(rv)) return rv; +*/ // MIME based content negotiation lives! // Add the "Accept" header. Note, this is set as an override because the |