Dear Internals, I'd like to suggest a new enhancement for 8.1 as outlined in the title.
The initial pull request is here: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/6834/files --- Details: Since quite a while PHP offers a dedicated user_agent php.ini entry, but it affects only all internal implementations like file_get_contents. cURL has no default and you need to modify CURLOPT_USERAGENT in the code and for the SoapClient there is a parameter 'user-agent' in the constructor which can be set. Therefore I'd like to introduce an equal entry for curl.user_agent which would set a default user_agent when making curl requests. Of course you can override it with CURLOPT_USERAGENT if required. (I can implement the same for SoapClient, if requested) --- Alternative: I could also use the default user_agent entry, but I wasn't sure what the best practise is and went for the more "local" approach for the initial implementation. --- Bigger picture: When the preferred solution is to use the default user_agent, we could also try to determine more places where i could send the default user_agent to give this php.ini entry a more consistent feeling. Thanks for your consideration, Michael PS: Subscribing to the list through https://www.php.net/mailing-lists.php is not possible and quits with the following error: We were unable to subscribe you due to some technical problems. Please try again later.
