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It seems like cases (1) and (2) would both be better handled by letting the user give their user agent a separate security context if they choose, instead of trying to detect/guess what kind of browser made that http request. I'm thinking about things like oauth permissions, GitHub's sudo mode, etc. Otherwise your magic detection code will inevitably end up telling an ELinks user "sorry, you need to download chrome to view your payment info".

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You read our mind! https://stytch.com/blog/the-age-of-agent-experience/

Very much agreed that's the long-term goal, but I think we'll live in a world where most apps don't support oauth for a while longer (though I'd love for all of them to -- we're actually announcing something next week that makes this easy for any app to do)

But we're also envisioning an interim period where users are delegating to unsanctioned external agents (e.g. OpenAI Operator, Anthropic Computer Use API, etc.) prior to apps catching up and offering proper oauth

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