CHANGE my outgoing HTTP_USER_AGENT

[WMAdam]

Hi All,
This is very easily done in perl, but I can't seem to track down the PHP equivalent. If I have a php page that fetches a piece of information from another web server, how do I change what my http_user_agent shows up as? I couldn't find anything in the php.ini file about it. Currently, the user_agent is: "PHP/4.1.2"
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Adam Jackson

 

[sleipnir214]

If you are using file() to retrieve the page, there is no way to do it short of editing the source and recompile (I think it's set in http_fopen_wrapper.c).

One method which will allow you to set the user agent string is to use curl (

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php)

if it is or can be made available.

Barring that, you might try finding a php class which will do the same thing. Snoopy (

http://sourceforge.net/projects/snoopy/)

is one example. ______________________________________________________________________
TANSTAAFL!

 

[WMAdam]

Your response was most helpful, thank you for your time!
Adam