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1. saperduper

   "false transmissions of `Mozilla' as the User-Agent are a copyright infringement, which will be prosecuted" - wget manual (didn't know that)

   Thursday, 15-Jan-09 15:11:43 UTC from api
   • Konstantinos Koukopoulos

     @saperduper prosecuted by whom? I skimmed through the manual but I didn't find it.

     Thursday, 15-Jan-09 15:14:33 UTC
   • Matthew Gregg

     @saperduper where are you reading that?

     Thursday, 15-Jan-09 15:16:34 UTC
   • saperduper Matthew Gregg

     @mcg http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/Documentation/Gnu/wget-1.5.3/html_node/wget_9.html

     Thursday, 15-Jan-09 15:18:43 UTC
   • Konstantinos Koukopoulos

     @saperduper funny, latest version doesn't mention that: http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget.html

     Thursday, 15-Jan-09 15:22:28 UTC
   • Matthew Gregg

     @saperduper doesn't IE use a mozilla user-agent?

     Thursday, 15-Jan-09 15:27:11 UTC
   • saperduper Matthew Gregg , Konstantinos Koukopoulos

     @mcg yes and even Opera as well. @kouk said that the latest version of the manual doesn't mention it.

     Thursday, 15-Jan-09 15:41:12 UTC
   • saperduper Konstantinos Koukopoulos

     @kouk true. I also found this http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/01/using-wgets-user-agent-option-safely-on.html

     Thursday, 15-Jan-09 15:42:03 UTC