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patch #704: fixs version.h and adds User-Agent field
Submitter: | None | ||
Submitted: | Sun 24 Nov 2002 03:49:40 PM UTC | ||
Category: | None | Priority: | 5 - Normal |
Status: | None | Privacy: | Public |
Assigned to: | None | Originator Email: | -email is unavailable- |
Open/Closed: | Open |
Mon 19 Jun 2006 10:20:42 PM UTC, comment #1: |
Alfred M. Szmidt <ams>![]() |
Sun 24 Nov 2002 03:49:40 PM UTC, original submission:
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Anonymous |
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Part of the patch is no longer needed, httpfs doesn't use version.h anymore.
The other part about adding a user agent string, I think this is a good idea. But I think it should be configurable, just like for wget, and it should be something different than "Mozilla".
-U agent-string
--user-agent=agent-string
Identify as agent-string to the HTTP server.
The HTTP protocol allows the clients to identify them-
selves using a "User-Agent" header field. This
enables distinguishing the WWW software, usually for
statistical purposes or for tracing of protocol viola-
tions. Wget normally identifies as Wget/version, ver-
sion being the current version number of Wget.
However, some sites have been known to impose the pol-
icy of tailoring the output according to the
"User-Agent"-supplied information. While conceptually
this is not such a bad idea, it has been abused by
servers denying information to clients other than
"Mozilla" or Microsoft "Internet Explorer". This
option allows you to change the "User-Agent" line
issued by Wget. Use of this option is discouraged,
unless you really know what you are doing.