From 110e13d093b79a822adb57e0daab1104da43e9ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hniksic Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 10:23:37 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [svn] Document empty user-agent. --- doc/ChangeLog | 4 ++++ doc/wget.texi | 14 +++++++++----- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index d5bb8794..0a468ae4 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2005-05-06 Hrvoje Niksic + + * wget.texi (HTTP Options): Document empty user-agent. + 2005-05-06 Hrvoje Niksic * wget.texi (Download Options): Explain that the read timeout diff --git a/doc/wget.texi b/doc/wget.texi index 9753e7c3..aace0ec0 100644 --- a/doc/wget.texi +++ b/doc/wget.texi @@ -1285,11 +1285,15 @@ number of Wget. However, some sites have been known to impose the policy of tailoring the output according to the @code{User-Agent}-supplied information. -While conceptually this is not such a bad idea, it has been abused by -servers denying information to clients other than @code{Mozilla} or -Microsoft @code{Internet Explorer}. This option allows you to change -the @code{User-Agent} line issued by Wget. Use of this option is -discouraged, unless you really know what you are doing. +While this is not such a bad idea in theory, it has been abused by +servers denying information to clients other than (historically) +Netscape or, more frequently, Microsoft Internet Explorer. This +option allows you to change the @code{User-Agent} line issued by Wget. +Use of this option is discouraged, unless you really know what you are +doing. + +Specifying empty user agent with @samp{--user-agent=""} instructs Wget +not to send the @code{User-Agent} header in @sc{http} requests. @cindex POST @item --post-data=@var{string}