[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #5066: Make update checking more consumer-friendly

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#5066: Make update checking more consumer-friendly
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 Reporter:  zamoose                |        Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  enhancement            |       Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal                 |    Milestone:  2.4      
Component:  Administration         |      Version:  2.3      
 Severity:  normal                 |   Resolution:           
 Keywords:  has-patch 2nd-opinion  |  
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Comment (by docwhat):

 Replying to [comment:8 chmac]:

 May I suggest that you create two radio buttons?

  * "WordPress should check for updates automatically"
  * "WordPress should not check for updates"

 And

  * "WordPress should advertise itself via User-Agent"
  * "WordPress should not advertise itself"

 This is because there are lots of User-Agent strings with data that some
 blog owners don't want transmitted.  See bug #5065

 Even better would be if there was an option to take
 "WordPress/$wp_version" out of everything.

 If you do the options part, I'd be willing to go around and locate all the
 places that WordPress leaks it's name and version number and change them
 depending on the option.

 Ciao!

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