maillog: 08/08/2005-05:46:30(-0400): Michael Cummings types > 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.
And the response above yours was that wget does not make blank connections, and therefore there is no need to set a default for portage. $ wget -q -d -O /dev/null http://1.1.1.1/ Setting --output-document (outputdocument) to /dev/null DEBUG output created by Wget 1.10 on linux-gnu. Created socket 4. Releasing 0x08084498 (new refcount 0). Deleting unused 0x08084498. ---request begin--- GET / HTTP/1.0 User-Agent: Wget/1.10 Accept: */* Host: 1.1.1.1 Connection: Keep-Alive ---request end--- ... -- ( Georgi Georgiev ( When all else fails, EAT!!! ( ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ) ( +81(90)2877-8845 ( (
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