From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-08-07T02:42:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19242] Re: http: "hi, my name is"-message

Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com> writes:

> 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?)

It's the 'User-Agent' header. If you're using Net::HTTP, you can set it
using

   resp, = h.get(url, 'User-Agent' => "Small Furry Wombat")


Regards


Dave