[HTTPCLIENT-1952] Allow default User Agent to be disabled

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.5.6
• Fix Version/s: 4.5.7, 5.0 Beta4
• Component/s: HttpCache
• External issue URL: https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62977
• Assignee: Michael Osipov
• Reporter: Antony Bowesman
• Created: 05/Dec/18 07:34
• Updated: 23/Dec/18 23:31
• Resolved: 23/Dec/18 23:31

Description

There is no way to disable the User-Agent header. In any kind of micro service architecture, where UA header is irrelevant, the header cannot be removed.

This has been seen as an issue using JMeter, see link

https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62977#c1

See comment #1 there from michael-o 

 

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #128
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #131