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| author | David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies@gmail.com> | 2009-12-11 00:32:01 +0100 |
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| committer | David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies@gmail.com> | 2009-12-11 00:32:01 +0100 |
| commit | 9f542bae2b3620887345ebc3e61970f8903123a0 (patch) | |
| tree | f6bd11f0c9e3e32914c86d02592ab642961ec6ab /doc/apt.conf.5.xml | |
| parent | bb1293d975294884a95b9cb298432c9cf9ecc995 (diff) | |
add config setting for User-Agent in http and https to the Acquire group,
thanks Timothy J. Miller! (Closes: #355782)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/apt.conf.5.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/apt.conf.5.xml | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml index e2db9defb..726bca2cc 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml @@ -275,7 +275,12 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; <para>The used bandwidth can be limited with <literal>Acquire::http::Dl-Limit</literal> which accepts integer values in kilobyte. The default value is 0 which deactivates the limit and tries uses as much as possible of the bandwidth (Note that this option implicit - deactivates the download from multiple servers at the same time.)</para></listitem> + deactivates the download from multiple servers at the same time.)</para> + + <para><literal>Acquire::http::User-Agent</literal> can be used to set a different + User-Agent for the http download method as some proxies allow access for clients + only if the client uses a known identifier.</para> + </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry><term>https</term> |