> From: soumen...@gmail.com > Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:17:49 +0530 > To: r-h...@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 > > -- > Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any > good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. > --- Howard Aiken > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
