How to set a custom user agent in ruby

ruby user-agent net-http
rubytester picture rubytester · Apr 27, 2011 · Viewed 18.4k times · Source

I've a task to test different user agents on a URL through automation. I'm using ruby to code, and I've been trying to set an user agent using the following method, but it doesn't seem to recognize the user agent. 

@http = Net::HTTP.new(URL)
response = @http.request_get(URL, {'User-Agent' => useragent})

Is there any other way to do this, or what am I doing wrong?

Answer

Riba picture Riba · Apr 27, 2011 
http = Net::HTTP.new("your.site.com", 80)
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new("/path/to/the/page.html", {'User-Agent' => 'your_agent'})
response = http.request(req)
puts response.body

Works great for me.

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