On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 10:41:49 +0200
"Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well wget already provides an user agent string, something like
Wget/1.10.
> When a server refuses a connection from this useragent string, it
means that 
> they *don't* want Wget to download from them, so I don't really think
it's 
> the case to change this default string.
> 
That's not always the case though. I know some mirrors would allow
wget's with user defined, even if defined to a generic "Gentoo User
Downloading Agent", but don't allow blank connections at all. I think
the suggestion was whether there could be a way to set this default for
portage.

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