Re: fopen() & User-Agent

+1 Afaik this was already brought up. Maybe someini entry like php.user_agent (or whatever fits best) which is of type string: ini_set("php.user_agent", "Tawnee Stone Virus"); and can be disabled with: ini_set("php.user_agent", ""); I.e. special case, empty user agent string == don't send it. On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 03:49:35AM -0400, Ilia A. wrote : > Current implementation of fopen() and any other built in functions that allow > opening of Urls, always sends a User-Agent: PHP/PHP_VERSION header when > sending the request, which cannot be disabled by the user. > Afaik this header is entirely optional and in some cases even causes problems > if the site decides to do User-Agent based blocking. The biggest example of > this I could find was Google, that blocks client sending the User-Agent: > PHP/PHP_VERSION header from accessing any of the search result pages and will > send a 403 error message. I imagine there are probably plenty of other web > sites that are doing the same or will do so in the future. > > Perhaps, it would make sense to add an option inside php.ini allowing the user > to disable the sending of this header. Otherwise to reliably open remote > URLs, users need to use CURL or manually negotiate connections via > fsockopen() or the sockets extension. This is especially annoying, since no > where in the PHP documentation is it mentioned that this header is sent when > PHP initiates a connection to HTTP or HTTPS. > > > Ilia > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- GnuPG Key: http://guru.josefine.at/~mfischer/C2272BD0.asc "In short, the window belongs to me. The document belongs to the web site designer." - Poster on opera.wishlist