Customizing the "User Agent" with cURL Screen Scraping?

[erikcw]

Hi,

I have a script which performs a screen scrape of a webpage using cURL. I was wondering, how can I customize the "User-Agent" that shows up in the server-logs whenever my tool is used so that I can track it's usage on my site.

Thanks!

Erik

[lazydog]

Use -
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla 1.7")

You can find more in the php manual.

Saurabh.

[jusdrum]

On a side note, you can use PHP's file_get_contents() function ( [php.net...] ) to grab the contents of encrypted/non-encrypted URLs as well.