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[#16057] - Set default user-agent in httpclient

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avatar sakiss
sakiss
16 May 2017

Steps to reproduce the issue

Any http request in joomla, (like the updates finding and fetching) is done using an empty user-agent header in the HTTP request.
It's a common practice that several servers are blocking traffic from empty or unknown user-agents, to get protected from unknown bots.

Suggested solution

Set a default user-agent either globally in the JHttp client or specifically to some basic processes like the requests of the updater.

avatar sakiss sakiss - open - 16 May 2017
avatar joomla-cms-bot joomla-cms-bot - change - 16 May 2017
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avatar joomla-cms-bot joomla-cms-bot - labeled - 16 May 2017
avatar brianteeman
brianteeman - comment - 16 May 2017

Please see #15385 it sounds like that resolves the issue. If so please test

avatar franz-wohlkoenig franz-wohlkoenig - change - 16 May 2017
Category ⇒ Administration
avatar franz-wohlkoenig franz-wohlkoenig - change - 16 May 2017
Status New ⇒ Discussion
avatar sakiss sakiss - change - 17 May 2017
Status Discussion ⇒ Closed
Closed_Date 0000-00-00 00:00:00 ⇒ 2017-05-17 10:29:25
Closed_By ⇒ sakiss
avatar sakiss sakiss - close - 17 May 2017
avatar sakiss
sakiss - comment - 17 May 2017

Seems like #15385 solves the issue

avatar brianteeman
brianteeman - comment - 17 May 2017

please record your test on #15385 so that is can be merged

avatar zero-24
zero-24 - comment - 17 May 2017

Seems like #15385 solves the issue

I would think we should keep this open as #15385 is just for the updater. Maybe we should append the default joomla user-agent per default to all calls?

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