[JENA-572] ARQ should provide a convenient way to set the User-Agent for HTTP requests

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Jena 2.11.0
• Fix Version/s: Jena 2.11.1
• Component/s: ARQ
• Assignee: Rob Vesse
• Reporter: Rob Vesse
• Created: 25/Oct/13 16:17
• Updated: 08/Nov/13 11:18
• Resolved: 25/Oct/13 16:43

Description

As discussed over at https://github.com/pyvandenbussche/sparqles/issues/9 as of 2.11.0 ARQ provides centralised HTTP operations which allows for setting global HTTP configuration.

One thing that it would be particularly useful to set is the User-Agent header so that people using ARQ to write RDF/SPARQL robots can assign an appropriate User-Agent to their requests.

Currently we do not change the header at all so sites will see the generic Apache HttpClient User-Agent header.