Context Navigation

← Previous Ticket
Next Ticket →

#3631 closed defect (fixed)

UserAgent of Browse contains "Sugar Labs/0.96"

Reported by:	bernie	Owned by:	manuq
Priority:	Low	Milestone:
Component:	Browse	Version:	0.96.x
Severity:	Unspecified	Keywords:
Cc:	erikos, bert, humitos	Distribution/OS:	Unspecified
Bug Status:	Unconfirmed

Description

There's no clear standard for UserAgent strings, but embedding a space within one of its parts seems dangerous, because space is also used to separate such parts from one another.

I propose changing it to "Sugar/0.96", but "SugarLabs/0.96" would also do.

Change History (12)

comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by bernie

Cc erikos added
Owner changed from erikos to manuq
Status changed from new to assigned

Reassigning to manuq as I was told that he takes care of Browse nowadays.
Erikos, should we change the module owner in Trac to reflect this?

comment:2 follow-up: ↓ 3 Changed 12 years ago by manuq

Cc bert added

I don't have objections Bernie. We should change both, ASLO and Browse. Also, wasn't squeakland.org reading the User-Agent for Etoys projects too? Adding bert in the CC.

comment:3 in reply to: ↑ 2 ; follow-up: ↓ 5 Changed 12 years ago by bernie

Replying to manuq:

I don't have objections Bernie. We should change both, ASLO and Browse. Also, wasn't squeakland.org reading the User-Agent for Etoys projects too? Adding bert in the CC.

I don't see anything equivalent to "Sugar Labs/0.96" in the UserAgent string of the versions of Browse based on xulrunner.

Now I'd be curious to know how ASLO detects the version of Sugar of the client.

comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by bert

Yes, Squeakland looks at the user agent - right now only for the substring "olpc" because newer Browse versions did not have any equivalent.

comment:5 in reply to: ↑ 3 Changed 12 years ago by sascha_silbe

Replying to bernie:

I don't see anything equivalent to "Sugar Labs/0.96" in the UserAgent string of the versions of Browse based on xulrunner.

Yes, it broke some time ago, see SL#2834.

Now I'd be curious to know how ASLO detects the version of Sugar of the client.

See SL#1066 for the original patch for xulrunner based Browse.

As explained on sugar-devel, we should use the Sugar Platform version for the User-Agent header (i.e. SugarPlatform/0.96 rather than Sugar/0.96). Unfortunately, there's currently no good way to detect it.