Add custom User-Agent for HTTP requests#2234
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Add custom User-Agent for HTTP requests#2234syedzohaibshah wants to merge 2 commits intoaboutcode-org:mainfrom
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Signed-off-by: Zohaib Shah <zs3783999@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Zohaib Shah <zohaib@Zohaibs-MacBook-Pro.local>
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Fixes #410
Partially addresses #591
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VULNERABLECODE_USER_AGENTconstant inutils.pyget_http_headers()helper functionfetch_yaml(),fetch_response(), andrequests_with_5xx_retry()to use custom User-AgentWhy
Some sites block requests with Python's default User-Agent. This properly identifies VulnerableCode scrapers and is a first step toward centralizing all network access (#591).
Testing