[bug #57884] wget reveals my operating system to the server

[Tim Ruehsen]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #57884 (project wget):

I see the point but start be become curious about backwards compatibility and
about how browsers and other web clients behave.

Transmitting the OS type is likely not handled by GDPR, as it is likely not
considered "personal data" (data that is bound to a real person). Otherwise,
all the browser and tool vendors had been sued already.

Maybe we should bring this up on gnu-prog-disc ML for a broader discussion ?

Firefox
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:73.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/73.0

Chromium
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like
Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.106 Safari/537.36

Konqueror
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/534.34 (KHTML, like
Gecko) konqueror/5.0.97 Safari/534.34

Curl
User-Agent: curl/7.67.0

aria2c
User-Agent: aria2/1.35.0


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