They were added as 'filler' to offer some more ideas for alternatives.
>For robots (using the established autmated recursion
>definition) the string "robot" makes more sense
Okay.
>>I'm no expert on the syntax.. reformat as appropriate,
>
>If you want to propose something, at least take the effort to lookup
>syntactic restraints, rather than leaving that to mailing-list disscusion.
>So much faster and less confusing. Your use of "()" is against the spec,
>because they are tspecials (which aren't allowed in tokens).
You mean to say that
Mozilla/3.0b5 (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.07 9000/715)
is illegal? I'm shocked ;-)
>Section 3.8 of the HTTP/1.1 draft says:
>
> product = token ["/" product-version]
>
>so the string "robot" fits that.
>
>That took the whole of 25 seconds to confirm :-)
I would have checked the spec but at the time my ISP was down
due to "wet lines" and I didn't have a hardcopy.
>>pick your favorite and let us know. Thanks.
>
>I'm not at all convinced this solves any problem, but if it makes you happy...
It can be put to good use immediately.
rob