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