User-Agent in WMS client

[Eijnden, B. van den (Bart)]

Hi list,

the WMS client code of Mapserver does not set the User-Agent in the http
headers, and we have encountered some Apache webservers which throw an
internal server error when there is no User-Agent set. We have successfully
patched our maphttp.c with the change below and this seems to work. Would it
be a good idea to apply this patch (or a similar patch) in Mapserver's
source code?

        /* set URL, note that curl keeps only a ref to our string buffer */
        curl_easy_setopt(http_handle, CURLOPT_URL, pasReqInfo[i].pszGetUrl
);

        // patch
        char szBuf[100];

        struct curl_slist *headers=NULL;
        snprintf(szBuf, 100, "User-Agent: curl");
        headers = curl_slist_append(headers, szBuf);
        curl_easy_setopt(http_handle, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, headers);
        // end patch 

Best regards,
Bart


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