+1
Afaik this was already brought up.
Maybe someini entry like
php.user_agent (or whatever fits best)
which is of type string:
ini_set("php.user_agent", "Tawnee Stone Virus");
and can be disabled with:
ini_set("php.user_agent", "");
I.e. special case, empty user agent string == don't send it.
On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 03:49:35AM -0400, Ilia A. wrote :
> Current implementation of fopen() and any other built in functions that allow
> opening of Urls, always sends a User-Agent: PHP/PHP_VERSION header when
> sending the request, which cannot be disabled by the user.
> Afaik this header is entirely optional and in some cases even causes problems
> if the site decides to do User-Agent based blocking. The biggest example of
> this I could find was Google, that blocks client sending the User-Agent:
> PHP/PHP_VERSION header from accessing any of the search result pages and will
> send a 403 error message. I imagine there are probably plenty of other web
> sites that are doing the same or will do so in the future.
>
> Perhaps, it would make sense to add an option inside php.ini allowing the user
> to disable the sending of this header. Otherwise to reliably open remote
> URLs, users need to use CURL or manually negotiate connections via
> fsockopen() or the sockets extension. This is especially annoying, since no
> where in the PHP documentation is it mentioned that this header is sent when
> PHP initiates a connection to HTTP or HTTPS.
>
>
> Ilia
>
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