User-Agent

From World Wind Wiki

Current World Wind user agent:

• World Wind v1.2.1873.34143 (Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600.0, en-US)

Mozilla user agent:

• Mozilla/5.001 (windows; U; NT4.0; en-us) Gecko/25250101
• Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

IE user agent:

• Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Current Code:

WebDownload\WebDownload.cs(44), WebDownload:IDisposable

  static readonly string UserAgent = String.Format("World Wind v{0} ({1}, {2})",
  System.Windows.Forms.Application.ProductVersion,
  Environment.OSVersion.ToString(),
  System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.Name);

What do we need in a user-agent string?

• World Wind
• WW version number
• Windows version
• .NET version
• Locale

Documents:

• RFC 1945
• RFC 2068
• http://www.mozilla.org/build/revised-user-agent-strings.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/build/user-agent-strings.html

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Environment.Version.ToString() gets the .NET version