[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] http: Tell translate.google.com that we are firefox

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 01:22:36AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 01:06:20AM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > On date Wednesday 2013-04-03 00:59:38 +0200, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> > > Fixes Ticket2265
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at>
> > > ---
> > >  libavformat/http.c |    4 ++++
> > >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/libavformat/http.c b/libavformat/http.c
> > > index 1e3cff7..d048688 100644
> > > --- a/libavformat/http.c
> > > +++ b/libavformat/http.c
> > > @@ -537,6 +537,10 @@ static int http_connect(URLContext *h, const char *path, const char *local_path,
> > >      proxyauthstr = ff_http_auth_create_response(&s->proxy_auth_state, proxyauth,
> > >                                                  local_path, method);
> > >  
> > > +    //needed by: "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=fr&q=l%E8vres"
> > > +    if(!strcmp("translate.google.com", hoststr) && !s->user_agent)
> > > +        s->user_agent = av_strdup("Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0.1");
> > > +
> > 
> > I'm strongly against this, especially since there is no explanation of
> > why this happens,
> 
> dont ask me, i dont know why this happens

also if someone has a cleaner solution or knows who to contact at
google about this ?

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