From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 19:56:32 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: urlget: Follow the "privacy by design" principle.
X-Git-Tag: v0.21~117
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c8fe23519e66963a2eb837a2c1209ffae8300ddd;p=thirdparty%2Fgettext.git

urlget: Follow the "privacy by design" principle.

* gettext-tools/src/gnu/gettext/GetURL.java (fetch): Override the User-Agent
string, so as not to reveal the Java version to the server.
---

diff --git a/gettext-tools/src/gnu/gettext/GetURL.java b/gettext-tools/src/gnu/gettext/GetURL.java
index 7ef42d174..af5bd4b28 100644
--- a/gettext-tools/src/gnu/gettext/GetURL.java
+++ b/gettext-tools/src/gnu/gettext/GetURL.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* Fetch an URL's contents.
- * Copyright (C) 2001, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ * Copyright (C) 2001, 2008, 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  *
  * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -56,7 +56,10 @@ public class GetURL {
       };
     timeoutThread.start();
     try {
-      InputStream istream = new BufferedInputStream(url.openStream());
+      URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
+      // Override the User-Agent string, so as to not reveal the Java version.
+      connection.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "urlget");
+      InputStream istream = new BufferedInputStream(connection.getInputStream());
       OutputStream ostream = new BufferedOutputStream(System.out);
       for (;;) {
         int b = istream.read();