[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [wigren at home.se: [PATCH] Selectable User-Agent for HTTP transfers]

[Diego Biurrun]

Dave Lambley writes:
 > On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 18:29, Alban Bedel wrote:
 > > on 16 Oct 2003 12:11:59 +0100 you wrote:
 > > > On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 07:47, Alban Bedel wrote:
 > > > > BTW i don't really like to have all my http connections to try this
 > > > > hack. What about adding another option to enable/disable it ? Like a
 > > > > flag wich act on tried_ua_hack ?
 > > > 
 > > > Would it be okay if it defaults to enabled? Otherwise it would miss the
 > > > point IMHO. I'll make it check for an EOF properly too, so not confuse
 > > > them with read errors where retrying wouldn't help.
 > > Personlay i don't care if it's on or off by default. Just let users
 > > enable/disable if they needed (ie add smthg like -uahack and -nouehack).
 > 
 > I've added an option to turn it off, "-no-user-agent-hack".

I think the user-agent-hack thing should be removed.  Just put 

user-agent="iTunes/4.0 (Macintosh; N; PPC)"

into your config file.  You will then send that user-agent string by
default.  No need to add bloat.

Diego