From: Michael Neumann <neumann@...>
Date: 2001-08-07T03:23:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19244] Re: http: "hi, my name is"-message

Tobias Reif 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?)

Download TCPSocketPipe by NaHi from RAA and start the contained monitor.rb 
application:

  monitor.rb 8080 www.mozilla.org 80  

Now, access the page as localhost:8080 and you'll see what your client-application
sends. (you should additionally put the header "Host: www.mozilla.org", sometimes 
this is required)


Regards,

  Michael


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