User-Agent string, my patch and privacy concerns.

[Eric M. Hopper]

I have a patch that causes the User-Agent string sent by the Mercurial
client in HTTP requests to change from this:

mercurial/proto-1.0

to this:

mercurial/proto-1.0 (Python/2.5.1(0x20501f0); Mercurial/1.0.0.6390; posix/linux2)

I think this is really useful extra information to have in a number of
different contexts, and I think I'm also going to be writing a patch
will cause servers to report something similar in their 'Server' header.

But, extra information always raises privacy concerns.  I'm curious how
you all feel about this.

* Do you not want the patch at all?
* Would you prefer it be turned off by default (which would make it
  much less useful IMHO)?
* Do you want it to report less extra information by default?
* Do you want individual options for turning on or off the Python
  version, Mercurial version and OS Python thinks it's running under?

Any other thoughts?

Thanks,
-- 
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-- Eric Hopper (hopper at omnifarious.org http://www.omnifarious.org/~hopper)--
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