From: Gene Tani <gene.tani@...>
Date: 2005-12-07T23:22:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Switch User Agent


Alex Amat wrote:
> Hi all I'm writing an application in ruby and I need to change the
> UAProof of an HTTP request that I'm sending out. (To pretend that my
> browser is a mobile phone) does anyone know how to go about it.
>
> Many thanks
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I haven't seent the term UAproof before, but the open-uri and Net::HTTP
ways of opening URLs are both dict-like as far as passing User-Agents
etc:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/open-uri/rdoc/

e.g.
Net::HTTP.start( 'www.digg.com', 80 ) do |http|
print( http.get( '/', "User-Agent" => "foobar" ).body ) ; end
 
setting referrer/referer (can't remember which is correct!) is similar