id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
10861	Comments should record User-Agent	hanksims	nobody	"django.contrib.comments records the remote IP address of a commenter; perhaps it should record the commenter's User-Agent as well.

Djangonauts can make use of the two big anti-comment-spam services -- Akismet and Typepad -- without too much trouble. However, they will have trouble contributing back to those services if they are using contrib.comments. Both services require flagged spam submissions to include the User-Agent of the spammer.

See ""Comment Check"" and ""Submit Spam"" in the Akismet API docs -- http://akismet.com/development/api/.

So I can check comments on my site for spam as they come in with Typepad, because I'll have access to the submitter's IP and User-Agent in the request object. But if a bit of spam makes it past Typepad, I can't notify Typepad of it because contrib.comments hasn't recorded the commenter's User-Agent. 

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