Varnishtest client user agents

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Jul 12 07:18:00 UTC 2023


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Dridi Boukelmoune writes:

> > I would prefer you do not overload any Well Known Headers.
> >
> >         X-VTC: c1
> >
> > maybe ?
>
> In the spirit of rfc6648 i would rather use a "VTC-" prefix, so
> something more like
>
>     VTC-Client: c1
>
> But also, since a VTC client mocks a user agent, I would rather use
> the standard header for this. We can also add a -noua option similar
> to -nolen, -nohost and -nodate and imply -noua when an explicit `-hdr
> "User-Agent: other"` is present.

So what about the servers ?

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