[wlug] Re: Microsoft's xCloud Game Streaming Looks Worse On Linux Than Windows

On Thu, 7 Jul 2022 14:23:41 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:

'Others have suggested that the downgrade could simply be a bug caused by Microsoft's naive parsing of the User-Agent strings.'

Why are they looking at User-Agent strings at all? Can’t they determine the relevant functionality by directly testing for it?