just added default oj version string, can be overridden with -Dhttp.agent= to
the trunk. rev 3465.
..ede
On 03.04.2013 11:03, edgar.sol...@web.de wrote:
> As this enhances function in now way, i would advise not spend to much effort
> on it. Good way to spread the OJ string into access logs though.
> Setting System.setProperty ("http.agent", "OpenJUMP <version string>") should
> suffice for the most use cases and is automatically propagated to each new
> http connection.
>
> btw. -D<name>=<value> is merely the command line way to set system
> properties, programmatically done with System.setProperty(name,value)
>
> ..ede
>
>
>
> On 03.04.2013 09:58, Rahkonen Jukka wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Service providers appreciate if clients are telling who they are and a
>> common way for doing this is to add User-Agent parameter to http headers.
>> Java is setting this to something like "User-Agent= Java/1.6.0_43" if user
>> agent is not set elsewhere. This is not very useful information for service
>> providers.
>>
>> There seems to be at least three ways for setting user agent in Java.
>> - use jre start option
>> -Dhttp.agent="OpenJUMP"
>> - use setRequestProperty
>> URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
>> conn.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "OpenJUMP YOURS Client");
>> - use System.setProperty ("http.agent", "OpenJUMP GIS");
>>
>> I do not know how and where the System.setProperty is supposed to be used
>> but I tested the two other alternatives. Adding -Dhttp.agent="OpenJUMP"
>> into makes OpenJUMP to use header "User-Agent: OpenJUMP Java/1.6.0_43".
>> Using setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "OpenJUMP YOURS Client") turns header
>> into exactly " User-Agent: OpenJUMP YOURS Client".
>>
>> I would suggest three things:
>> - Add http.agent into WMS connection in around line 117 in the file
>> http://jump-pilot.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/jump-pilot/core/trunk/src/com/vividsolutions/wms/WMService.java?revision=3459&view=markup
>> I woud suggest to use "con.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "OpenJUMP WMS
>> Client");
>> - Add jre start option -Dhttp.agent="OpenJUMP" into the starting scripts.
>> This makes for example ad hoc BeanShell scripts to advertise OpenJUMP as
>> user agent if nothing else is set in the code.
>> - Write somewhere into developer documents an advice to use an informative
>> user agent if new plugins or scripts are communicating with some services
>> through http.
>>
>> What do the real OJ developers think?
>>
>> -Jukka Rahkonen-
>>
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