[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [wigren at home.se: [PATCH] Selectable User-Agent for HTTP transfers]

[Alban Bedel]

Hi Dave Lambley,

on 16 Oct 2003 12:11:59 +0100 you wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 07:47, Alban Bedel wrote:
> > BTW i don't really like to have all my http connections to try this
> > hack. What about adding another option to enable/disable it ? Like a
> > flag wich act on tried_ua_hack ?
> 
> Would it be okay if it defaults to enabled? Otherwise it would miss the
> point IMHO. I'll make it check for an EOF properly too, so not confuse
> them with read errors where retrying wouldn't help.
Personlay i don't care if it's on or off by default. Just let users
enable/disable if they needed (ie add smthg like -uahack and -nouehack).
	Albeu
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