[httpclient]Re: HttpClient and User Agent string

["Brian K. Wallace" <br...@transmorphix.com>]

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Luca -

Httpclient's list is httpclient-user@jakarta.apache.org but if you send
to commons-user, please prefix your messages with [httpclient] as most
people filter based on the component.

Try
~  getmethod.setRequestHeader(ua);

Hope that helps.

Brian

Luca Passani wrote:
| Hello
|
| the archives contain traces of a HttpClient specific dev mailing list,
| but it does not seem to exist anymore, so I wonder if this is the right
| place to ask.
|
| I need to build some HTTP utilities. Jakarta HttpClient seemed
| to do the job apparently, but I can't find a way to change the
| user-agent header!!!
|
| reading the JavaDocs I got as far as:
|
| getmethod = new GetMethod(url_to_get);
| Header ua = new Header("User-Agent","Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac
| OS X; en)");
| getmethod.USER_AGENT = ua;
|
| Alas, for reasons I can't understand, this is not permitted:
|
|    [javac] DocumentRetriever.java:110: USER_AGENT has protected access
| in org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase
|    [javac]         getmethod.USER_AGENT = ua;
|    [javac]                      ^
|    [javac] 1 error
|
| what am I missing?
|
| thanks
|
| luca
|
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