synctime.c: fixed user-agent setting.

Some websites meanwhile refuse to reply to requests from ancient
browsers like IE6, therefore I've comment out this setting, but
also fixed the string to now fake IE8 if someone enables it.

diff --git a/docs/examples/synctime.c b/docs/examples/synctime.c
index 14d77de277c90f1ff68ab82672911869d299e1d9..1cb3f87509a51c69bf0ce7bc6b1da733e988f757 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/examples/synctime.c
+++ b/docs/examples/synctime.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
  *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
  *
- * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2011, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+ * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
  *
  * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
  * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -92,6 +92,9 @@
 #define MAX_STRING              256
 #define MAX_STRING1             MAX_STRING+1
 
+/* Trick Webserver by claiming that you are using Microsoft WinXP SP2, IE8 */
+/* #define UA "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)" */
+
 typedef struct
 {
   char http_proxy[MAX_STRING1];
@@ -186,9 +189,9 @@ void SyncTime_CURL_Init(CURL *curl, char *proxy_port,
   if (strlen(proxy_user_password) > 0)
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, proxy_user_password);
 
-  /* Trick Webserver by claiming that you are using Microsoft WinXP SP2, IE6 */
-  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT,
-                   "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)");
+#ifdef UA
+  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, UA);
+#endif
   curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, *SyncTime_CURL_WriteOutput);
   curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION, *SyncTime_CURL_WriteHeader);
 }