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From: "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] the default FETCHCOMMAND with broken ssl certificates
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 09:19:32
Message-Id: 200508081041.56662@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] the default FETCHCOMMAND with broken ssl certificates by Lars Strojny
1 On Monday 08 August 2005 10:26, Lars Strojny wrote:
2 > Would be sensible. Also it would make sense to add --user-agent="Whatever"
3 > to the default configuration, because there are some mirrors of free
4 > software which do not like interacting with a client with an empty user-
5 > agent string.
6 Well wget already provides an user agent string, something like Wget/1.10.
7 When a server refuses a connection from this useragent string, it means that
8 they *don't* want Wget to download from them, so I don't really think it's
9 the case to change this default string.
10
11 --
12 Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò
13 Gentoo Developer - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/
14 (Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64, Sound, PAM)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] the default FETCHCOMMAND with broken ssl certificates Michael Cummings <mcummings@g.o>