[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #47635] Octave fetches http urls without a User-Agent header

[Mike Miller]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47635>

                 Summary: Octave fetches http urls without a User-Agent header
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: mtmiller
            Submitted on: Wed 06 Apr 2016 07:19:55 PM PDT
                Category: Octave Function
                Severity: 1 - Wish
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Feature Request
                  Status: Postponed
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

Octave should set its own User-Agent string in all outgoing http requests.
Ideally this could be configurable by the user, but there should be a default.
As it is now it is unset, which means no User-Agent header is sent.

The default should indicate that GNU Octave is the client, which version, and
what operating system it is running on.

This should apply to both the url_transfer class (used by the GUI) as well as
the urlread and urlwrite command-line functions.

This would be a nice small self-contained project for a new contributor to
work on.




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