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| author | David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies@gmail.com> | 2009-11-25 23:20:12 +0100 |
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| committer | David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies@gmail.com> | 2009-11-25 23:20:12 +0100 |
| commit | 4494239cc6d519b0b6219387ecd684b42b5c2d79 (patch) | |
| tree | 399f2f290cf2d6b4216efc481ddbd7d85674b2cb /doc | |
| parent | d8c6a87aef1f76647d424c6b05641ac0ff53a6a8 (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')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/apt.conf.5.xml | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/examples/configure-index | 3 |
2 files changed, 9 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> diff --git a/doc/examples/configure-index b/doc/examples/configure-index index 27118fb7e..16e864d89 100644 --- a/doc/examples/configure-index +++ b/doc/examples/configure-index @@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ Acquire Max-Age "86400"; // 1 Day age on index files No-Store "false"; // Prevent the cache from storing archives Dl-Limit "7"; // 7Kb/sec maximum download rate + User-Agent "Debian APT-HTTP/1.3"; }; // HTTPS method configuration: @@ -204,6 +205,8 @@ Acquire CaPath "/etc/ssl/certs"; Verify-Host" "true"; AllowRedirect "true"; + + User-Agent "Debian APT-CURL/1.0"; }; ftp |