user-agent header requirement is not a security feature

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Originally submitted by Nat (Nat Sakimura) on 2017-01-31

“shall send User-Agent header that identifies the client, e.g., User-Agent: Intuit/1.2.3 Mint/4.3.1; and”
The note says that this is not a security feature.
It is dangerous to depend on it. It is just FYI.
The "shall" should be changed to "should".

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Bitbucket status: resolved

Bitbucket origin: issue 65

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Originally submitted by Nat (Nat Sakimura) on 2017-02-01

WG discussed this in the call and agreed to drop it from this part and move it to Part 4 where we can further discuss whether we should even keep it there.

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Originally submitted by SaschaZeGerman (Sascha Preibisch) on 2017-02-02

I created a pull request for ticket #65 but that was actually for #69. Sorry for the confusion.

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Originally submitted by Nat (Nat Sakimura) on 2017-02-02

No problem. I just merged it.

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Originally submitted by Nat (Nat Sakimura) on 2017-02-02

Fixed #65: user-agent header requirement is not a security feature

→ <<cset 880d550>>

[bitbucket-import-issues]

Originally submitted by Nat (Nat Sakimura) on 2017-02-02

Fixed #65: user-agent header requirement is not a security feature

→ <<cset 880d550>>

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Originally submitted by Nat (Nat Sakimura) on 2017-02-02

Fixed #65. Merged in Nat/fixed-65-useragent-header-requirement-is-1486017508729 ((Bitbucket #8))

Fixed #65: user-agent header requirement is not a security feature

→ <<cset 906c796>>

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Originally submitted by Nat (Nat Sakimura) on 2017-02-02

Fixed #65. Merged in Nat/fixed-65-useragent-header-requirement-is-1486017508729 ((Bitbucket #8))

Fixed #65: user-agent header requirement is not a security feature

→ <<cset 906c796>>