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-rw-r--r--doc/apt.conf.5.xml7
-rw-r--r--doc/examples/configure-index3
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";
};
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