NAME LWP::UserAgent::Patch::SetUserAgent - Set User-Agent VERSION This document describes version 0.001 of LWP::UserAgent::Patch::SetUserAgent (from Perl distribution LWP-UserAgent-Patch-SetUserAgent), released on 2019-05-10. SYNOPSIS In Perl: use LWP::UserAgent::Patch::SetUserAgent -agent => "Blah/1.0"; From command-line: % perl -MLWP::UserAgent::Patch::SetUserAgent=-agent,'Blah/1.0' script-that-uses-lwp.pl ... % HTTP_USER_AGENT=Blah/1.0 perl -MLWP::UserAgent::Patch::SetUserAgent script-that-uses-lwp.pl ... DESCRIPTION This patch sets LWP::UserAgent's default User-Agent string, from "libwww-perl/XXX" to a value from either "-agent" configuration or from environment variable "HTTP_USER_AGENT". You can still override it using the usual: my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new( agent => '...', ... ); or $ua->agent('...'); CONFIGURATION -agent String. ENVIRONMENT HTTP_USER_AGENT String. Used to set default for "-agent" configuration. HOMEPAGE Please visit the project's homepage at . SOURCE Source repository is at . BUGS Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature. SEE ALSO If you want to check the sent User-Agent header in requests, you can use Log::ger::For::LWP. AUTHOR perlancar COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2019 by perlancar@cpan.org. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.