The simple implementation of this, which I'd prefer to use, would be:
if we can import LWPx::ParanoidAgent, use it; otherwise, use
LWP::UserAgent.
However, aggregate has historically worked with proxies, and
LWPx::ParanoidAgent quite reasonably refuses to work with proxies
(because it can't know whether those proxies are going to do the same
filtering that LWPx::ParanoidAgent would).
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
Package: ikiwiki
Version: 3.20140125
Severity: wishlist
By default, LWP::UserAgent used by IkiWiki to perform outbound HTTP
requests sends the string "libwww-perl/<version number>" as User-Agent
header in HTTP requests. Some blogging platforms have blacklisted the
user agent and won't serve any content for clients using this user agent
string. With IkiWiki configuration option "useragent" it's now possible
to define a custom string that is used for the value of the User-Agent
header.
Asking for only the head worked in my tests, but I've found a site where it
didn't -- apparently ikiwiki didn't get a chance to do or finish the
refresh when HEADed. Getting the whole url, waiting for ikiwiki to finish,
avoided the update problem.
Simon McVittie
Tuomas Jormola
Amitai Schlair
Joey Hess
Joey Hess
Joey Hess