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It's anything that communicates via HTTP. A WebDAV file manager isn't a web browser. It's still a user agent.

by kevin_thibedeau 4y ago

pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
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- jchw 4y ago
  Nope. A web browser browsers the world wide web. A WebDAV file browser just speaks HTTP. No hypertext, no web. edit: Wow, it's not really that complicated. Please take a moment to stop taking a crowbar to each and every crack and crevice of this argument. It's not about hypertext specifically, or hypermedia, or HTTP, or HTML, that's missing the point. The point is, a web browser is software that browses websites. A WebDAV browser browses WebDAV. WebDAV is built on web technology and can be used inside a web browser, but it is no more "the web" than anything else. A WebDAV file browser is absolutely no more a web browser than the Deno JavaScript runtime is. I can't browse HN with a WebDAV browser, or Deno. Speaking HTTP does not make you a web browser.
  - TylerE 4y ago
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    - None4U 4y ago
      If I download a Debian .iso using HTTP, is that hypertext? How about updating my system using `apt`?
    - gruez 4y ago
      It's called that, but the program in question doesn't understand it. The fact that the protocol's name contains "hypertext" is irrelevant, just as using http to download a .zip file doesn't make that file a "hypertext".
    - jchw 4y ago
      Congratulations on finding the word you were looking for. The only problem is, when you use WebDAV, the payloads aren't hypertext. The acronym doesn't matter. Tar stands for tape archive, but thankfully it works on disk drives too.
  - pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
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- eyelidlessness 4y ago
  A homing pigeon, on the other hand, is not. But certain standards could allow it to deliver User-Agent headers nonetheless.
  - IIsi50MHz 4y ago
    IP-over-avian-carrier? With QoS? RFC 1149: Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avian carriers https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149 RFC 2549: IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2549 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2549

It's anything that communicates via HTTP. A WebDAV file manager isn't a web browser. It's still a user agent.

pwdisswordfish9 4y ago

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jchw 4y ago
Nope. A web browser browsers the world wide web. A WebDAV file browser just speaks HTTP. No hypertext, no web. edit: Wow, it's not really that complicated. Please take a moment to stop taking a crowbar to each and every crack and crevice of this argument. It's not about hypertext specifically, or hypermedia, or HTTP, or HTML, that's missing the point. The point is, a web browser is software that browses websites. A WebDAV browser browses WebDAV. WebDAV is built on web technology and can be used inside a web browser, but it is no more "the web" than anything else. A WebDAV file browser is absolutely no more a web browser than the Deno JavaScript runtime is. I can't browse HN with a WebDAV browser, or Deno. Speaking HTTP does not make you a web browser.
- TylerE 4y ago
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  - None4U 4y ago
    If I download a Debian .iso using HTTP, is that hypertext? How about updating my system using `apt`?
  - gruez 4y ago
    It's called that, but the program in question doesn't understand it. The fact that the protocol's name contains "hypertext" is irrelevant, just as using http to download a .zip file doesn't make that file a "hypertext".
  - jchw 4y ago
    Congratulations on finding the word you were looking for. The only problem is, when you use WebDAV, the payloads aren't hypertext. The acronym doesn't matter. Tar stands for tape archive, but thankfully it works on disk drives too.
- pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
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eyelidlessness 4y ago
A homing pigeon, on the other hand, is not. But certain standards could allow it to deliver User-Agent headers nonetheless.
- IIsi50MHz 4y ago
  IP-over-avian-carrier? With QoS? RFC 1149: Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avian carriers https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149 RFC 2549: IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2549 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2549