[Greasemonkey] Question: what would happen if GreasemonkeysenttheID of every applicable user script with each request?

[Mark Pilgrim]

On 5/2/05, Matthew Gertner <matthew at allpeers.com> wrote:
> Well, this would be exactly the effect of having GM script information in
> loggable form in the request header. First of all, people who are GM-unaware
> will be alerted to its existence.

Another data point in this discussion: from my foray into the
syndication world, I know that some system administrators will simply
ban any user agent that they don't recognize.  I run my own web
server, and I have a report that runs every day that lists any
User-Agent that it hasn't seen before.  The addition of a
"Greasemonkey" label onto the standard User-Agent, along with a long
list of unknown script names, will raise alarm bells with system
administrators who are generally (a) extremely busy, (b) paranoid
about the health of their servers, and (c) lazy about researching.

Note that the system administrator is generally *not* the same person
as the content producer.  (I am the exception that proves the rule.) 
So it does not follow that the content producer would ever even become
aware of GM's existence, or the existence of a particular
usability-enhancing script that they could use as the basis for
improvements.

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Cheers,
-Mark