Interestingly enough it says we can do it here:

http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2009/04/sdk-version-121-released.html

Though I wonder if we changed this to make it easier to spot spammers.

Ikai Lan
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On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 2:45 AM, ANithian <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Apologies if I am missing something fundamental but I am not having
> any luck setting the user agent string of my URL connection to a web
> site I am trying to invoke.
>
> Here is my code:
> URL u = new URL("http://hokiesuns.appspot.com/echorequest";);
> HttpURLConnection uConn = (HttpURLConnection)u.openConnection();
> uConn.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "MyAgent");
>
> If you access that URL, it will simply print the user agent of the
> request and I always see:
> "AppEngine-Google; (+http://code.google.com/appengine; appid:
> s~hokiesuns)" (Since my app is hokiesuns and I am invoking from that)
>
> I have read that it's possible to set the user agent and I double
> checked the spelling from the HTTP spec, am I missing something?
>
> Thanks
> Amit
>
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