[HTTPCLIENT-1508] Default user agent should reflect the Java version used and not compiled

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.3.3
• Fix Version/s: 4.4 Alpha1
• Component/s: HttpClient (classic)
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Michael Osipov
• Created: 12/May/14 12:42
• Updated: 04/May/17 09:49
• Resolved: 15/May/14 07:57

Description

Currently, the dafault user agent looks like this:

DEFAULT_USER_AGENT = "Apache-HttpClient/" + release + " (java 1.5)"

This indicates that Java 1.5 is used but this is the compile target of HTTP Client.

A better user agent would be:

DEFAULT_USER_AGENT = "Apache-HttpClient/" + release + " (Java " + javaVersion ")"

where javaVersion is the version where the client is currently running.