Allow HTTP user agent string to be modified.

Some firewalls restrict HTTP connections based on the clients user agent.  This
commit provides the user the ability to modify the user agent string via either
a new config option (http.useragent) or by an environment variable
(GIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT).

Relevant documentation is added to Documentation/config.txt.

Signed-off-by: Spencer E. Olson <olsonse@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index e75434b3ef2d81fa8dafd552d4b689eb84eea441..8cd8b6750d6c3d51bab461a1d645800a409f4022 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1243,6 +1243,15 @@ http.noEPSV::
        support EPSV mode. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_CURL_FTP_NO_EPSV'
        environment variable. Default is false (curl will use EPSV).
 
+http.useragent::
+       The HTTP USER_AGENT string presented to an HTTP server.  The default
+       value represents the version of the client git such as git/1.7.1.
+       This option allows you to override this value to a more common value
+       such as Mozilla/4.0.  This may be necessary, for instance, if
+       connecting through a firewall that restricts HTTP connections to a set
+       of common USER_AGENT strings (but not including those like git/1.7.1).
+       Can be overridden by the 'GIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT' environment variable.
+
 i18n.commitEncoding::
        Character encoding the commit messages are stored in; git itself
        does not care per se, but this information is necessary e.g. when

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index bc3c57058faba66f6a7a947e1e9642f47053b5bb..95676498c7a299cee13387b869f84a0d917720a1 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1872,7 +1872,7 @@ builtin/init-db.s builtin/init-db.o: EXTRA_CPPFLAGS = \
 
 config.s config.o: EXTRA_CPPFLAGS = -DETC_GITCONFIG='"$(ETC_GITCONFIG_SQ)"'
 
-http.s http.o: EXTRA_CPPFLAGS = -DGIT_USER_AGENT='"git/$(GIT_VERSION)"'
+http.s http.o: EXTRA_CPPFLAGS = -DGIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT='"git/$(GIT_VERSION)"'
 
 ifdef NO_EXPAT
 http-walker.s http-walker.o: EXTRA_CPPFLAGS = -DNO_EXPAT

diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
index 1320c50e32eb7b8715b263bc2af089c3dbce39fa..0a5011f615bdfade0b69682b177dc97471ac20a3 100644 (file)
--- a/http.c
+++ b/http.c
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ static long curl_low_speed_time = -1;
 static int curl_ftp_no_epsv;
 static const char *curl_http_proxy;
 static char *user_name, *user_pass;
+static const char *user_agent;
 
 #if LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM >= 0x071700
 /* Use CURLOPT_KEYPASSWD as is */
@@ -196,6 +197,9 @@ static int http_options(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
                return 0;
        }
 
+       if (!strcmp("http.useragent", var))
+               return git_config_string(&user_agent, var, value);
+
        /* Fall back on the default ones */
        return git_default_config(var, value, cb);
 }
@@ -279,7 +283,8 @@ static CURL *get_curl_handle(void)
        if (getenv("GIT_CURL_VERBOSE"))
                curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
 
-       curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, GIT_USER_AGENT);
+       curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_USERAGENT,
+               user_agent ? user_agent : GIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT);
 
        if (curl_ftp_no_epsv)
                curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPSV, 0);
@@ -380,6 +385,8 @@ void http_init(struct remote *remote)
 #endif
        set_from_env(&ssl_cainfo, "GIT_SSL_CAINFO");
 
+       set_from_env(&user_agent, "GIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT");
+
        low_speed_limit = getenv("GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT");
        if (low_speed_limit != NULL)
                curl_low_speed_limit = strtol(low_speed_limit, NULL, 10);