Hello,
I found out what was going on here.
I was setting the User-Agent request header correctly, but I was also calling
recycle() on my instance of GetMethod, which I wanted to reuse for multple URL fetches.
Method recycle() clears all request headers, among other things, which always removed
my User-Agent header, so HttpMethodBase would use its default one.
I like recycle(), and it makes sense that some request headers are reset (e.g. Host
header), but it makes less sense to erase some request headers that are likely to
remain the same in subsequent URL retrievals, such as the User-Agent header.
So how about this change to recycle() method in HttpMethodBase:
Index: HttpMethodBase.java
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RCS file:
/home/cvspublic/jakarta-commons/httpclient/src/java/org/apache/commons/httpclient/HttpMethodBase.java,v
retrieving revision 1.21
diff -u -c -r1.21 HttpMethodBase.java
*** HttpMethodBase.java 15 Dec 2001 01:09:08 -0000 1.21
--- HttpMethodBase.java 6 Jan 2002 02:41:52 -0000
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*** 1110,1116 ****
--- 1110,1118 ----
path = null;
followRedirects = false;
queryString = null;
+ String userAgent = ((Header)requestHeaders.get("user-agent")).getValue();
requestHeaders.clear();
+ setRequestHeader("user-agent", userAgent);
responseHeaders.clear();
statusCode = -1;
statusText = null;
Thanks,
Otis
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