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NAME

LWP::UserAgent::Patch::SetUserAgent - Set User-Agent

VERSION

This document describes version 0.001 of LWP::UserAgent::Patch::SetUserAgent (from Perl distribution LWP-UserAgent-Patch-SetUserAgent), released on 2019-05-10.

SYNOPSIS

In Perl:

 use LWP::UserAgent::Patch::SetUserAgent -agent => "Blah/1.0";

From command-line:

 % perl -MLWP::UserAgent::Patch::SetUserAgent=-agent,'Blah/1.0' script-that-uses-lwp.pl ...
 % HTTP_USER_AGENT=Blah/1.0 perl -MLWP::UserAgent::Patch::SetUserAgent script-that-uses-lwp.pl ...

DESCRIPTION

This patch sets LWP::UserAgent's default User-Agent string, from libwww-perl/XXX to a value from either "-agent" configuration or from environment variable "HTTP_USER_AGENT".

You can still override it using the usual:

 my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(
     agent => '...',
     ...
 );

or

 $ua->agent('...');

CONFIGURATION

-agent

String.

ENVIRONMENT

HTTP_USER_AGENT

String. Used to set default for "-agent" configuration.

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/LWP-UserAgent-Patch-SetUserAgent.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-LWP-UserAgent-Patch-SetUserAgent.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=LWP-UserAgent-Patch-SetUserAgent

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

SEE ALSO

If you want to check the sent User-Agent header in requests, you can use Log::ger::For::LWP.

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2019 by perlancar@cpan.org.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.