Please update the user agent aliases

[spazm]

cha...@live.de reported on Apr 28, 2011

WWW::Mechanize still uses user agent strings from 2003, which is now 8 years ago. I believe that they should get an update, so that we don't manipulate site stats and thus make people think that their sites are still regularly visited by old browsers. Some regularly used user agent strings may be found at http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/useragentstring.php. Thanks.

Details

Imported from Google Code issue 204 via archive

• Type: Enhancement
• Date: Apr 28, 2011
• Reporter: cha...@live.de
• Owner: ----
• Priority: Medium
• Status: New
• Labels: WM

Comments

petda...@gmail.com commented on May 4, 2011 :

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• Labels : WM

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• Labels : Type-Enhancement

[simbabque]

I think we should look at more current versions of these, and add a couple of new ones. Maybe we can include years in the keys of the hash so that the original ones can be retained.

[oalders]

Possibly we could add a -latest suffix to keys, denoting that they are subject to change.

[petdance]

On the other hand, if they haven't been updated since 2003, maybe they're not really all that useful.