Bug 4184

Summary:	Provide option for changing HTTP user agent sting.
Product:	Claws Mail (GTK 2)	Reporter:	George <removed-gdpr>
Component:	Plugins/RSSyl	Assignee:	users
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.17.4
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux

Description George 2019-03-23 11:44:35 UTC

Currently RSSyl sends "libfeed 0.1" as HTTP user agent. This is a quite unpopular UA which makes user fingerprinting easier. It would be better to use something more popular:

https://techblog.willshouse.com/2012/01/03/most-common-user-agents/

Ideally the user should be given a preference where he can enter (say) the 3 UA strings and Claws can use them randomly for each separate HTTP connection.

Comment 1 George 2019-03-25 09:58:27 UTC

Seems to be this line:

$ grep -r "libfeed 0.1" .
./src/plugins/rssyl/libfeed/feed.c:     curl_easy_setopt(eh, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "libfeed 0.1");