R help - Dec 2010 - 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?

Thanks in advance,

Soumendra

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> 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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