IVOA-science in Softid

[Mark Taylor]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2026, Thomas Boch via apps wrote:

> I'd like to bring up the topic of web-based clients (typically from Javascript
> in the browser) such as Aladin Lite or web portals. As you surely know, such
> clients don't have the freedom to override browser user-agent and set up a
> custom user-agent header. I think it would be a shame if this use case was not
> taken into account. Can we envisage to have an alternative header keyword
> (X-User-agent?) that could be used for web-based clients. It would of course
> the op-purpose syntax as the one you suggest.

Sounds reasonable to me.

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Mark Taylor  Astronomical Programmer  Physics, Bristol University, UK
m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk          https://www.star.bristol.ac.uk/mbt/