[R] modifying user agent strings in http requests

[Soumendra]

I had looked at that link, but it doesn't answer my question.

Here is the answer I got from StackOverflow:

options("HTTPUserAgent") or getOption("HTTPUserAgent") prints your
current settings, and options(HTTPUserAgent="My settings") is the way
to change it.

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On 27 December 2010 18:18, Mike Marchywka <marchywka at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: soumendra at gmail.com
>> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:17:49 +0530
>> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> Subject: [R] modifying user agent strings in http requests
>>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> How does one change user agent strings in http requests made in R? And
>> how do I figure out what my current user agent string looks like?
>
> this was the first google hit on RCurl,
>
>
> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/postForm-in-RCurl-and-library-RHTMLForms-td3026742.html
>
> and just skimming it it does seem to have quite a bit of html scraping stuff
> ( not that you probably care but data "acquistion" has come up here before).
> Generally for confirmation, I don't know if Rcurl lets you get as well as set UA,
> I just point the request to a local echo socket ( this can be done in any lanaguage,
> I think I happen to have one in perl) and have all the headers print in a different
> cygwin window.
>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Soumendra
>>
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