From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...>
Date: 2007-11-05T01:54:42+09:00
Subject: Re: patch for lib/net/http.rb, self['User-Agent'] ||= 'Ruby'

In article <9079DC13-476F-4C12-922E-E197BD5AAA5C@loveruby.net>,
  Minero Aoki <aamine@loveruby.net> writes:

>> After applying this patch the 'User-Agent:' header is set to 'Ruby'  
>> unless it is already defined.
>
>> +      self['User-Agent'] ||= 'Ruby'
>
> OK, I have commited your patch in trunk (Ruby 1.9).
>

I guess it will be forbidden by someone, like libwww-perl.

% ruby -rnet/http -e 'Net::HTTP.start("www.google.com") {|h| p h.get("/search?q=foo", "User-Agent"=>"libwww") }'
#<Net::HTTPForbidden 403 Forbidden readbody=true>
-- 
Tanaka Akira