Re: [RFC] Under Discussion: Default User-Agent for cURL

> > or doing nothing at all. > Sounds good to me. On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 at 16:47, Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 4:45 AM Hans Henrik Bergan <divinity76@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> fwiw i think no self-respecting codebase is depending on an ini-setting >> being correct for the ua in cases where the ua is actually important, so >> the breakage should be minimal. >> >> > In my mind, this is either an argument in favor of either NOT adding a new > INI setting (rather applying the existing user_agent setting to curl), or > doing nothing at all. Code using curl already knows how to call the > precisely ONE line required to set a user agent, or more likely uses a > wrapper which simplifies cURL's archaic interface, in which case it's that > proxy which should be setting any default UA, not PHP. > > And on the subject of PHP_INI_ALL/PERDIR/SYSTEM. The answer is ALL. > PERDIR and SYSTEM exist either for technical limits (something gets > allocated and has to live across requests), or security limiters. The > former certainly doesn't apply, and the latter wouldn't achieve anything > since the UA can always be set explicitly on any curl handle. PHP_INI_ALL > is the only setting which makes sense if we add an additional configuration > (which I don't think we should). > > -Sara >