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-rw-r--r--lib/spack/spack/util/web.py6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/util/web.py b/lib/spack/spack/util/web.py
index dc1a7c24f6..6896c308cf 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/util/web.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/util/web.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import llnl.util.lang
import llnl.util.tty as tty
from llnl.util.filesystem import mkdirp, rename
+import spack
import spack.config
import spack.error
import spack.url
@@ -34,6 +35,9 @@ import spack.util.url as url_util
from spack.util.compression import ALLOWED_ARCHIVE_TYPES
from spack.util.path import convert_to_posix_path
+#: User-Agent used in Request objects
+SPACK_USER_AGENT = "Spackbot/{0}".format(spack.spack_version)
+
if sys.version_info < (3, 0):
# Python 2 had these in the HTMLParser package.
from HTMLParser import HTMLParseError, HTMLParser # novm
@@ -116,7 +120,7 @@ def read_from_url(url, accept_content_type=None):
url = url_util.format(url)
if sys.platform == "win32" and url_scheme == "file":
url = convert_to_posix_path(url)
- req = Request(url)
+ req = Request(url, headers={'User-Agent': SPACK_USER_AGENT})
content_type = None
is_web_url = url_scheme in ('http', 'https')