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> My only concern is that 511 could be seen as legitimizing the practice of putting silly click-through terms-of-service roadblocks on free wi-fi (making it impossible for devices to connect without a human operating a web browser), but since people are doing it anyway we might as well support it properly.

Filter on User-Agent to only show terms to browser. If non-human agent spoofs browser signature, it’s their own fault.



Changing behavior based on user agent is antithetical to the goals of having a semantic web. The ideal is to allow the user to use whatever software they want to connect to the network and access information.




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