Hi Tomas, On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 11:42 AM Tomas Kalibera <tomas.kalib...@gmail.com> wrote: [...] > This is because (from NEWS:) > > The default ‘user agent’ has been changed when accessing http:// > and https:// sites using libcurl. (A site was found which caused > libcurl to infinite-loop with the previous default.)
Which site was this? Maybe it can be fixed on their end? The current behavior is not really ideal, because the `libcurl/x,y,z` string is not only a default, but as you mention above, anything that start with `R (` is replaced with it, so it is basically impossible to send out a UserAgent that starts with `R (`. This was very surprising to me, and I had to go to the C source code to see why R does not respect my `HTTPUserAgent` option. Would it make sense to document this in `?options`? Actually, the default that includes R's version number seems more sensible to me. Maybe we can just add `libcurl/x.y.z` to that to work around that buggy site? I would be happy to test this and send a patch, if you could let me know which website it was. Thanks! Gabor [...] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
