Bug 11879 – missing default User-Agent in std.net.curl

The W3C standard says "User agents SHOULD include this field with requests." http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.43 Some APIs will reject requests without a User-Agent. Most notably https://api.github.com will return a 403 and the following message. Request forbidden by administrative rules. Please make sure your request has a User-Agent header (http://developer.github.com/v3/#user-agent-required). Check https://developer.github.com for other possible causes. I think we should chose a default value for this field like most other libraries. http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/Librarielist/ How about "Phobos-std.net.curl/2.064 (libcurl/7.32.0)"?

I forgot to mention, the problem is very hard to debug, especially over an encrypted connection.

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/commit/b84b43ff5de7577c05578eccd6c4bd12352fff0c fix Issue 11879 - missing default User-Agent in std.net.curl - use "Phobos-std.net.curl/2.065 (libcurl/7.32.0)" as default "User-Agent" - add method to set a different user agent https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/commit/9cb7cabc5954b5dc7443d85bc69692564ec3d771 Merge pull request #1847 from MartinNowak/fix11879 fix Issue 11879 - missing default User-Agent in std.net.curl