jhhoward / MicroWeb

DOS Web browser for 8088 class machines
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Customizable user agent string #11

Closed chabala closed 2 years ago

chabala commented 2 years ago

It might be nice to allow users to customize/append to the user agent string, perhaps via environment variable, so that tools that track user agents not only see MicroWeb BUILDDATE, but also the platform information that is typically shown in parenthesis, e.g. OS, architecture, hardware, etc. Not that MicroWeb should be trying to detect and set it; it would be up to the user to configure.

Users that configure the extra info are then silently advertising what they use to surf, and popular proxies like FrogFind are in a better place to see what kinds of hardware are using their service.