From: Ned Konz <ned@...>
Date: 2001-08-07T02:34:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19240] Re: http: "hi, my name is"-message

On Monday 06 August 2001 10:23 am, you wrote:
> AFAIK: When I go to a website with Mozilla, it tells the server it's
> name: Mozilla Version blah and more.
> When I download stuff from a webserver with Ruby, what does Ruby tell
> the server? How can I find that out? How can I customize the message?
> What is the name of the message? (is it the header of the http request?)

This is sent in the User-Agent HTTP header.

Net::HTTP has a get method that allows the customization of HTTP headers: 
(I've never used it but this is the impression I get from the docs):

    http.get( '/index.html', { 'user-agent' => 'MyUserAgent 1.3' } )

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Ned Konz
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