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authorot <ot@localhost>2008-07-22 13:06:04 +0000
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documenting the User-Agent string param
-rwxr-xr-xhtdocs/docs/users.html12
-rwxr-xr-xhtdocs/whatsnew.html8
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/htdocs/docs/users.html b/htdocs/docs/users.html
index b76e109..2b9dc9c 100755
--- a/htdocs/docs/users.html
+++ b/htdocs/docs/users.html
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: users.html,v 1.31 2008-07-17 15:47:05 ot Exp $"
---><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2008-07-17 15:47:05 $"
+<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: users.html,v 1.32 2008-07-22 13:04:52 ot Exp $"
+--><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2008-07-22 13:04:52 $"
--><!--#set var="title" value="User Documentation for The W3C Markup Validation Service"
--><!--#set var="relroot" value="../"
--><!--#include virtual="../header.html" -->
@@ -223,6 +223,14 @@
Validator for <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/mobileOK-basic10-tests/#http_request">Mobile Web Best Practices</a>
checking.</p>
</dd>
+ <dt id="option-user-agent">Set a specific <code>User-Agent</code> Header (<code>user-agent</code>)</dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>This option (<em>experimental, as of 0.8.3</em>) makes the validator send
+ a custom <code>User-Agent</code> HTTP header instead of the usual <code>W3C_Validator/xx.xxxx</code>.
+ If the value of this parameter is <code>mobileok</code>, the validator will output a <code>User-Agent</code>
+ string as defined by the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/mobileOK-basic10-tests/#http_request">Mobile Web Best Practices</a>
+ spec.</p>
+ </dd>
</dl>
<h4 id="Output">Output Options</h4>
<p>
diff --git a/htdocs/whatsnew.html b/htdocs/whatsnew.html
index 055f7b6..7173344 100755
--- a/htdocs/whatsnew.html
+++ b/htdocs/whatsnew.html
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: whatsnew.html,v 1.73 2008-07-17 15:47:05 ot Exp $"
---><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2008-07-17 15:47:05 $"
+<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: whatsnew.html,v 1.74 2008-07-22 13:06:04 ot Exp $"
+--><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2008-07-22 13:06:04 $"
--><!--#set var="title" value="What's New at The W3C Markup Validation Service"
--><!--#set var="relroot" value="./"
--><!--#set var="feeds" value="1"
@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@
<li>Bug Fix: the validator won't override a given document type with itself</li>
<li>Conformance: The validator now warns about incorrect public/system identifiers combinations</li>
<li>API: The <a href="docs/api.html#http_headers">custom HTTP headers in validator responses</a> now also include the number of warnings</li>
- <li>Experimental Feature: added the new option to send a specific <code>Accept-Charset</code> header, in addition to <code>Accept</code>
- and <code>Accept-Language</code> in <a href="#t2007-10-11">0.8.2</a>.</li>
+ <li>Experimental Feature: added the new option to send specific <code>Accept-Charset</code> and <code>User-Agent</code> headers,
+ in addition to <code>Accept</code> and <code>Accept-Language</code> in version <a href="#t2007-10-11">0.8.2</a>.</li>
<li>Experimental Feature: the validator can output its <a href="/docs/users.html#Output">results as JSON</a>.</li>
<li>Some documentation updates</li>
</ul>