modifying user agent strings in http requests
From: soumendra at gmail.com Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:17:49 +0530 To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] modifying user agent strings in http requests Hi all. How does one change user agent strings in http requests made in R? And how do I figure out what my current user agent string looks like?
this was the first google hit on RCurl, http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/postForm-in-RCurl-and-library-RHTMLForms-td3026742.html and just skimming it it does seem to have quite a bit of html scraping stuff ( not that you probably care but data "acquistion" has come up here before). Generally for confirmation, I don't know if Rcurl lets you get as well as set UA, I just point the request to a local echo socket ( this can be done in any lanaguage, I think I happen to have one in perl) and have all the headers print in a different cygwin window.
Thanks in advance,
Soumendra
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