From: Jimmy Thrasher <jjthrash@...>
Date: 2001-10-10T04:16:36+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22337] Re: net::http

> I need to be able to specify an useragent when I use net::http.
> 
> Is that possible? I tried to look at the code, but could not find
> the place to apply a fix.
> Right now the Useragent is "-".

try:

http = Net::HTTP.new(host, port)
resp, data = http.get(uri, { "user-agent", "whatever/1.x" })

You can pass HTTP request headers as a Hash in the get, post, etc methods.

Jimmy