[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] http: Tell translate.google.com that we are firefox

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Wednesday 2013-04-03 00:59:38 +0200, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> Fixes Ticket2265
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at>
> ---
>  libavformat/http.c |    4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/libavformat/http.c b/libavformat/http.c
> index 1e3cff7..d048688 100644
> --- a/libavformat/http.c
> +++ b/libavformat/http.c
> @@ -537,6 +537,10 @@ static int http_connect(URLContext *h, const char *path, const char *local_path,
>      proxyauthstr = ff_http_auth_create_response(&s->proxy_auth_state, proxyauth,
>                                                  local_path, method);
>  
> +    //needed by: "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=fr&q=l%E8vres"
> +    if(!strcmp("translate.google.com", hoststr) && !s->user_agent)
> +        s->user_agent = av_strdup("Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0.1");
> +

I'm strongly against this, especially since there is no explanation of
why this happens, and don't think that adding an hack for each website
on the Internet having weird requirements is a good idea.
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