Set user agent

README.md

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ Modern, non-blocking and exception free, header-only HTTP Client library for C++
 * [How to ignore SSL certificate errors?](#how-to-ignore-ssl-certificate-errors)
 * [Setting the TLS version](#setting-the-tls-version)
 * [How to set timeout?](#how-to-set-timeout)
+* [Setting the User Agent](#setting-the-user-agent)
 * [How can I limit download and upload bandwidth?](#how-can-i-limit-download-and-upload-bandwidth)
 * [Semantic Versioning](#semantic-versioning)
 * [Full function list](#full-function-list)
@@ -438,6 +439,30 @@ int main() {
 ```
 
 
+## Setting the User Agent
+
+You can set the User Agent information to be sent during the request with the setUserAgent method.
+
+```cpp
+#include <fstream>
+#include "libcpp-http-client.hpp"
+
+using namespace lklibs;
+
+int main() {
+    HttpRequest httpRequest("https://api.myproject.com");
+
+    // You can set the user agent to be used for the request with setUserAgent method
+    auto response = httpRequest
+                    .setUserAgent("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/124.0.0.0")
+                    .send()
+                    .get();
+
+    return 0;
+}
+```
+
+
 ## How can I limit download and upload bandwidth?
 
 If you do not want the bandwidth to exceed a certain limit during the download and upload process, you can determine the maximum limit that can be used in Bytes with the setDownloadBandwidthLimit and setUploadBandwidthLimit methods.
@@ -488,14 +513,29 @@ send return the class itself, so they can be added one after the other like a ch
 > All methods and parameters descriptions are also available within the code as comment for IDEs.
 
 ```cpp
-- HttpRequest &setMethod(const HttpMethod &method) noexcept
-- HttpRequest &setQueryString(const std::string &queryString) noexcept
-- HttpRequest &setPayload(const std::string &payload) noexcept
-- HttpRequest &returnAsBinary() noexcept
-- HttpRequest &ignoreSslErrors() noexcept
-- HttpRequest &addHeader(const std::string &key, const std::string &value) noexcept
-- std::future<HttpResult> send() noexcept
+- HttpRequest& setMethod(const HttpMethod& method) noexcept
+
+- HttpRequest& setQueryString(const std::string& queryString) noexcept
+
+- HttpRequest& setPayload(const std::string& payload) noexcept
+
+- HttpRequest& returnAsBinary() noexcept
 
+- HttpRequest& addHeader(const std::string& key, const std::string& value) noexcept
+
+- HttpRequest& setTimeout(const int timeout) noexcept
+
+- HttpRequest& ignoreSslErrors() noexcept
+
+- HttpRequest& setTLSVersion(const TLSVersion version) noexcept
+
+- HttpRequest& setUserAgent(const std::string& userAgent) noexcept
+
+- HttpRequest& setDownloadBandwidthLimit(const int limit) noexcept
+
+- HttpRequest& setUploadBandwidthLimit(const int limit) noexcept
+
+- std::future<HttpResult> send() noexcept
 ```
 
 

examples/main.cpp

@@ -202,6 +202,21 @@ void setTLSVersion()
     std::cout << "Data: " << response.textData << std::endl;
 }
 
+void setUserAgent()
+{
+    HttpRequest httpRequest("https://httpbun.com/get");
+
+    // You can set the user agent to be used for the request with setUserAgent method
+    auto response = httpRequest
+                    .setUserAgent("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/124.0.0.0")
+                    .send()
+                    .get();
+
+    std::cout << "Succeed: " << response.succeed << std::endl;
+    std::cout << "Http Status Code: " << response.statusCode << std::endl;
+    std::cout << "Data: " << response.textData << std::endl;
+}
+
 void setTimeout()
 {
     HttpRequest httpRequest("https://httpstat.us/504?sleep=10000");
@@ -260,6 +275,8 @@ int main()
 
     setTLSVersion();
 
+    setUserAgent();
+
     setTimeout();
 
     setDownloadAndUploadBandwidthLimit();

src/libcpp-http-client.hpp

@@ -221,48 +221,60 @@ namespace lklibs
         }
 
         /**
-         * @brief Ignore SSL errors when making HTTP requests
+         * @brief Add a HTTP header to the request
+         *
+         * @param key: Header key
+         * @param value: Header value
          */
-        HttpRequest& ignoreSslErrors() noexcept
+        HttpRequest& addHeader(const std::string& key, const std::string& value) noexcept
         {
-            this->sslErrorsWillBeIgnored = true;
+            this->headers[key] = value;
 
             return *this;
         }
 
         /**
-         * @brief Set the TLS version for the request
+         * @brief Set the timeout for the request
          *
-         * @param version: TLS version to be used for the request
+         * @param timeout: Timeout in seconds (0 for no timeout)
          */
-        HttpRequest& setTLSVersion(TLSVersion version) noexcept
+        HttpRequest& setTimeout(const int timeout) noexcept
         {
-            this->tlsVersion = version;
+            this->timeout = timeout;
 
             return *this;
         }
 
         /**
-         * @brief Add a HTTP header to the request
+         * @brief Ignore SSL errors when making HTTP requests
+         */
+        HttpRequest& ignoreSslErrors() noexcept
+        {
+            this->sslErrorsWillBeIgnored = true;
+
+            return *this;
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * @brief Set the TLS version for the request
          *
-         * @param key: Header key
-         * @param value: Header value
+         * @param version: TLS version to be used for the request
          */
-        HttpRequest& addHeader(const std::string& key, const std::string& value) noexcept
+        HttpRequest& setTLSVersion(const TLSVersion version) noexcept
         {
-            this->headers[key] = value;
+            this->tlsVersion = version;
 
             return *this;
         }
 
         /**
-         * @brief Set the timeout for the request
+         * @brief Set the user agent for the request
          *
-         * @param timeout: Timeout in seconds (0 for no timeout)
+         * @param userAgent: User agent to be used for the request
          */
-        HttpRequest& setTimeout(int timeout) noexcept
+        HttpRequest& setUserAgent(const std::string& userAgent) noexcept
         {
-            this->timeout = timeout;
+            this->userAgent = userAgent;
 
             return *this;
         }
@@ -272,7 +284,7 @@ namespace lklibs
          *
          * @param limit: Download bandwidth limit in bytes per second (0 for no limit)
          */
-        HttpRequest& setDownloadBandwidthLimit(int limit) noexcept
+        HttpRequest& setDownloadBandwidthLimit(const int limit) noexcept
         {
             this->downloadBandwidthLimit = limit;
 
@@ -284,7 +296,7 @@ namespace lklibs
          *
          * @param limit: Upload bandwidth limit in bytes per second (0 for no limit)
          */
-        HttpRequest& setUploadBandwidthLimit(int limit) noexcept
+        HttpRequest& setUploadBandwidthLimit(const int limit) noexcept
         {
             this->uploadBandwidthLimit = limit;
 
@@ -322,6 +334,7 @@ namespace lklibs
         std::string url;
         std::string method = "GET";
         std::string payload;
+        std::string userAgent;
         bool sslErrorsWillBeIgnored = false;
         ReturnFormat returnFormat = ReturnFormat::TEXT;
         std::map<std::string, std::string> headers;
@@ -386,6 +399,11 @@ namespace lklibs
                 curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_MAX_SEND_SPEED_LARGE, this->uploadBandwidthLimit);
                 curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_MAX_RECV_SPEED_LARGE, this->downloadBandwidthLimit);
 
+                if (!this->userAgent.empty())
+                {
+                    curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_USERAGENT, this->userAgent.c_str());
+                }
+
                 if (!this->payload.empty())
                 {
                     curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, this->payload.c_str());

test/test.cpp

@@ -773,6 +773,26 @@ TEST(TimeoutTest, TimeoutCanBeSet)
     ASSERT_FALSE(response.errorMessage.empty()) << "HTTP Error Message is empty";
 }
 
+TEST(UserAgentTest, UserAgentCanBeSet)
+{
+    HttpRequest httpRequest("https://httpbun.com/get");
+
+    auto response = httpRequest
+                    .setUserAgent("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/124.0.0.0")
+                    .send()
+                    .get();
+
+    ASSERT_TRUE(response.succeed) << "HTTP Request failed";
+    ASSERT_EQ(response.statusCode, 200) << "HTTP Status Code is not 200";
+    ASSERT_FALSE(response.textData.empty()) << "HTTP Response is empty";
+    ASSERT_TRUE(response.binaryData.empty()) << "Binary data is not empty";
+    ASSERT_TRUE(response.errorMessage.empty()) << "HTTP Error Message is not empty";
+
+    auto data = json::parse(response.textData);
+
+    ASSERT_EQ(data["headers"]["User-Agent"], "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/124.0.0.0") << "User-Agent is invalid";
+}
+
 TEST(BandwidthLimitTest, DownloadBandwidthLimitCanBeSet)
 {
     HttpRequest httpRequest("https://httpbun.com/get");