h.u.c should check HTTP USER-AGENT

[Corey Burger]

On 7/30/06, Duncan Lithgow <duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk> wrote:
> The 'is there enough help in the right places' debate is again in good
> health on ubuntu-users. One good point is that the links to various
> variants of Ubuntu on https://help.ubuntu.com/ is sure to be confusing
> for some users, I've already mentioned that a link from the front page
> text to HTML is not very useful for people who don't know what HTML is.
>
> The next thing that occurs to me is that we should be able to use the
> HTTP USER-AGENT string. I went to check mine at
> http://web-sniffer.net/ where it says mine was as follows:
>
>
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060727
> Ubuntu/dapper-security Firefox/1.5.0.5 Web-Sniffer/1.0.24
>
> This means that at the very least we can check if a visitor to the help
> pages is using Ubuntu, and which version.
>
> Could someone who runs another flavour (Xubuntu / Kubuntu ...) check to
> see if they show up flavour specific?
>
> Duncan

Interesting idea, but make certain the other variants are available,
as you might have an Ubuntu user helping a Kubuntu user, etc.

Can you file a bug on this? File it against ubuntu-doc.

Corey