If the question is could mozorg parse UA information and send it over as part of stub attribution, then yes as previously discussed in this bug it’s totally possible for us to do this in a number of ways. Your suggestion is certainly a plausible option. The question I would like to understand is why would it make more sense for mozorg to write and maintain a UA parsing library (which does not currently exist), when this information is already sent along with the request header to bouncer with existing stub info. Apologies if this has already been discussed but I’m not in the loop with some of the outcomes here. I’m not saying mozorg shouldn’t do this, if it’s the appropriate solution that is a better fit than all others. Reading previous comments, I’m not sure that is the case though. I’d also like to see a specification for what we consider “basic UA detection”.
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If the question is could mozorg parse UA information and send it over as part of stub attribution, then yes as previously discussed in this bug it’s totally possible for us to do this in a number of ways. Your suggestion is certainly a plausible option. The question I would like to understand is why would it make more sense for mozorg to write and maintain a UA parsing library (which does not currently exist), when the UA string is already sent to bouncer with existing stub info. Apologies if this has already been discussed but I’m not in the loop with some of the outcomes here. I’m not saying mozorg shouldn’t do this, if it’s the appropriate solution that is a better fit than all others. Reading previous comments, I’m not sure that is the case though. I’d also like to see a specification for what we consider “basic UA detection”.
If the question is could mozorg parse UA information and send it over as part of stub attribution, then yes as previously discussed in this bug it’s totally possible for us to do this in a number of ways. Your suggestion is certainly a plausible option. The question I would like to understand is why would it make more sense for mozorg to write and maintain a UA parsing library (which does not currently exist), when the UA string is already available to bouncer with existing stub URL requests. Apologies if this has already been discussed but I’m not in the loop with some of the outcomes here. I’m not saying mozorg shouldn’t do this, if it’s the appropriate solution that is a better fit than all others. Reading previous comments, I’m not sure that is the case though. I’d also like to see a specification for what we consider “basic UA detection”.