[Issue 11879] New: missing default User-Agent in std.net.curl

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           Summary: missing default User-Agent in std.net.curl
           Product: D
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Phobos
        AssignedTo: nobody at puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: code at dawg.eu


--- Comment #0 from Martin Nowak <code at dawg.eu> 2014-01-07 16:14:44 PST ---
The W3C standard says "User agents SHOULD include this field with requests."
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.43

Some APIs will reject requests without a User-Agent.
Most notably https://api.github.com will return a 403 and the following
message.

Request forbidden by administrative rules. Please make sure your request has a
User-Agent header (http://developer.github.com/v3/#user-agent-required). Check
https://developer.github.com for other possible causes.

I think we should chose a default value for this field like most other
libraries.
http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/Librarielist/

How about "Phobos-std.net.curl/2.064 (libcurl/7.32.0)"?

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