From 9f542bae2b3620887345ebc3e61970f8903123a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Kalnischkies Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:32:01 +0100 Subject: add config setting for User-Agent in http and https to the Acquire group, thanks Timothy J. Miller! (Closes: #355782) --- doc/apt.conf.5.xml | 7 ++++++- doc/examples/configure-index | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc') 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";}; The used bandwidth can be limited with Acquire::http::Dl-Limit 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.) + deactivates the download from multiple servers at the same time.) + + Acquire::http::User-Agent 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. + https diff --git a/doc/examples/configure-index b/doc/examples/configure-index index f5f996460..333c8df7e 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 -- cgit v1.2.3