Review Request 115613: Drop platform name from default user agent string

[Martin Gräßlin]

> On Feb. 10, 2014, 8:37 p.m., Dawit Alemayehu wrote:
> > Well the platform name was added for compatibility with what Firefox at the time. And Chromium seems to have adapted that as well.
> > 
> > The latest stable version of Firefox (version 27) for example sends the following user agent string by default:
> > 
> > "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0"
> > 
> > And the latest Chromium (version 32) sends the following:
> > 
> > "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1700.107 Safari/537.36"
> > 
> > So removing the platform name from the user-agent string might have consequences on sites that rely on it.
> 
> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     ok, sounds like that is needed. Then we need a solution to make it work again. At all: any suggestions on how we can get the GUI platform in a core application?
> 
> Alexander Richardson wrote:
>     Probably not very reliable, but maybe qEnvironmentVariableIsSet("DISPLAY")?
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> Christoph Feck wrote:
>     ... and risking a break when we switch to Wayland? If there are sites out there that need to see the "X11" string, we should simply lie, and always send it for Linux. We aren't a Mozilla browser either...
>

based on the discussion I opened a new review request which always forces to X11 if we are on unix-like systems: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/115723/


- Martin


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On Feb. 10, 2014, 10:15 a.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
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> (Updated Feb. 10, 2014, 10:15 a.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks, Dawit Alemayehu and Bernhard Beschow.
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> Repository: kio
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> Description
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> Drop platform name from default user agent string
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> The platform name (e.g. X11) was currently broken on compile time.
> On Linux it returned unknown and on all other platforms the same
> name as already included in the OS name.
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> We cannot really determine the platform name as this is a core
> application and the Qt's platform name is only available in a GUI
> application. Compile time is no solution as we cannot know whether
> the binary is executed on X11, Wayland, Android or whatever.
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> Diffs
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>   src/core/kprotocolmanager.cpp f81b6797887eebd868c36b98e867eb055b05a1e2 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/115613/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Martin Gräßlin
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