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ArchiveTeam / ArchiveBot

ArchiveBot, an IRC bot for archiving websites
http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveBot
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Antiquated UA #348

Open Flashfire42 opened 5 years ago

Flashfire42 commented 5 years ago

The current User Agents may do the job but I imagine that for example the firefox UA running on Windows NT may raise a few eyebrows. Perhaps updating the User Agents could be an idea.

JustAnotherArchivist commented 5 years ago

I agree that the UAs should be updated.

One clarification though: "Windows NT" is a class of operating systems, and all personal computer versions since 2000 fall among that. The Firefox UA specifies "Windows NT 6.1", which is Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 or Windows Home Server 2011. There are definitely still a lot of users with Windows 7 (over a third of all Windows machines as of a few months ago according to Wikipedia). What would raise eyebrows is the Firefox version from 2015 though.

JustAnotherArchivist commented 5 years ago

Partially fixed by #364, #365, #366, and #376, but there are still some outdated UAs in there.