[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 9515] New: Safari lies. Reports itself as Mozilla, Gecko and KHTML too.

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http://bugzilla.opendarwin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9515

           Summary: Safari lies. Reports itself as Mozilla, Gecko and KHTML
                    too.
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 420+ (nightly)
          Platform: Macintosh
        OS/Version: Mac OS X 10.4
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Page Loading
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at opendarwin.org
        ReportedBy: contact at nickshanks.com


I don't think Safari should claim to be anything other than Safari. In
particular, it shouldn't start with "Mozilla/". I realise that this may break
the odd site here and there, but if they are browser sniffing I most likely
don't want to read the contents anyway. It's time to assert conformance and
good behaviour on the web by not having sloppy user agents. If you agree, apply
this patch to your local builds. I don't expect it to get into ToT though.


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