572668 - Remove the crypto strength token from the UA string

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, enhancement)

Description

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

Steps to reproduce:
 1) Load http://www.delorie.com:81/some/url.txt

Actual results:
The User-Agent string has the token " U;", which signifies that the browser provides crypto support that is stronger than what the "international" builds of Netscape offered circa 1995.

Expected results:
Expected this long-obsolete token not to be sent on every HTTP request.

Additional information:
This isn't actually fingerprinting-relevant, but since this is a suggesting UA string change, marking a dependency on the bug tracking suggested UA string changes.

IE doesn't send the " U;" token.

Comment 1

[Saint Wesonga]

Attachment: Patch

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Comment on attachment 451924 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch

r=bzbarsky.  Do you need this landed?

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Pushed http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/22e19fe61752

Comment 4

[Ryan Jones-Ward [:sciguyryan]]

This reference document on the wiki probably needs to be updated after this change.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/User_Agent_Strings_Reference