129038 - mozilla has "U;" in useragent when PSM is not installed

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Security: UI, defect, P3)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

Isn't it wrong that the user agent string is
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020304
when PSM is not installed.

shouldn't it be:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; N; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020304

according to:
http://www.mozilla.org/build/revised-user-agent-strings.html
* N for no security
* U for strong security
* I for weak security

20020304

Comment 1

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

I agree:
See bug 224340 for an official real-life case !

Comment 2

[John G. Myers]

Mass reassign ssaux bugs to nobody

Comment 3

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Mass change "Future" target milestone to "--" on bugs that now are assigned to
nobody.  Those targets reflected the prioritization of past PSM management.
Many of these should be marked invalid or wontfix, I think.

Comment 4

[Kai Engert (:KaiE:)]

PSM is no longer optional, but contained in the builds by default.

Is it still possible to compile Mozilla without crypto?

If yes: we should fix this bug

If no: this bug is invalid

Comment 5

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Is it still possible to compile Mozilla without crypto?

Yes.

> If yes: we should fix this bug

Comment 6

[Tanner M. Young [:tmyoung]]

Since the encryption strength has been removed from the UA-string, does this still need to be addressed?

Comment 7

[[not reading bugmail]]

I bet it doesn't matter now.

Comment 8

[Tomas]

Wontfix?

Comment 9

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

marking wontfix