[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Selectable User-Agent for HTTP transfers

[Per Wigren]

This patch adds the option -user-agent for HTTP-streaming. It is needed 
for the 100s of radiostations hosted by http://www.surfernetwork.com and 
I'm sure there are others.
A bunch of the SurferNetwork's stations can be found at 
http://www.web-radio.com, the symbol "(SN)".  SN uses a custom player 
which uses encrypted streams, but reading the information they say they 
also support iTunes on MacOS.. After some investigation I found that you 
get an unencrypted MP3-stream if you connect to 
http://rd1.surfernetwork.com:443/call-id/bitrate and send the header 
"User-Agent: iTunes/4.0 (Macintosh; N; PPC)".

Apply this patch and you can listen to the streams like this:
$ mplayer http://rd1.surfernetwork.com:443/buzz/24 -user-agent 
"iTunes/4.0 (Macintosh; N; PPC)"
for the station with call-id "buzz", bitrate 24.

I hope to see this in 1.0! It's a very small and simple patch and may be 
needed for more streams than SN's!

Regards,
Per Wigren
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