From: Gene Tani <gene.tani@...>
Date: 2005-12-07T23:22:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Switch User Agent


Gene Tani wrote:
> 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

whoops, forgot the great zenspider slides:
http://www.zenspider.com/dl/rubyconf2005/open-uri.pdf