Add a proper API to set the user agent

(cherry picked from commit 7f9b7d3e31101f97831b2e62ca25dc671de14c6b)

Conflicts:

	bin/vlc.c
	src/libvlc.c

bin/vlc.c

@@ -182,6 +182,8 @@ int main( int i_argc, const char *ppsz_argv[] )
 
     if (vlc != NULL)
     {
+        libvlc_set_user_agent (vlc, "VLC media player", NULL);
+
         if (libvlc_add_intf (vlc, "signals"))
             pthread_sigmask (SIG_UNBLOCK, &set, NULL);
 #if !defined (HAVE_MAEMO) && !defined __APPLE__

include/vlc/libvlc.h

@@ -155,6 +155,19 @@ int libvlc_add_intf( libvlc_instance_t *p_instance, const char *name );
 VLC_PUBLIC_API
 void libvlc_wait( libvlc_instance_t *p_instance );
 
+/**
+ * Sets the application name. LibVLC passes this as the user agent string
+ * when a protocol requires it.
+ *
+ * \param p_instance LibVLC instance
+ * \param name human-readable application name, e.g. "FooBar player 1.2.3"
+ * \param http HTTP User Agent, e.g. "FooBar/1.2.3 Python/2.6.0"
+ * \version LibVLC 1.1.1 or later
+ */
+VLC_PUBLIC_API
+void libvlc_set_user_agent( libvlc_instance_t *p_instance,
+                            const char *name, const char *http );
+
 /**
  * Retrieve libvlc version.
  *

src/control/core.c

@@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ libvlc_instance_t * libvlc_new( int argc, const char *const *argv )
     p_new->verbosity = 1;
     p_new->p_callback_list = NULL;
     vlc_mutex_init(&p_new->instance_lock);
+    var_Create( p_libvlc_int, "http-user-agent",
+                VLC_VAR_STRING|VLC_VAR_DOINHERIT );
     return p_new;
 
 error:
@@ -120,6 +122,16 @@ void libvlc_wait( libvlc_instance_t *p_i )
     libvlc_InternalWait( p_libvlc );
 }
 
+void libvlc_set_user_agent (libvlc_instance_t *p_i,
+                            const char *name, const char *http)
+{
+    libvlc_int_t *p_libvlc = p_i->p_libvlc_int;
+
+    var_SetString (p_libvlc, "user-agent", name);
+    if (http != NULL)
+        var_SetString (p_libvlc, "http-user-agent", http);
+}
+
 const char * libvlc_get_version(void)
 {
     return VLC_Version();

src/libvlc.c

@@ -802,6 +802,10 @@ int libvlc_InternalInit( libvlc_int_t *p_libvlc, int i_argc,
     var_Create( p_libvlc, "snapshot-file", VLC_VAR_STRING );
     var_Create( p_libvlc, "record-file", VLC_VAR_STRING );
 
+    /* some default internal settings */
+    var_Create( p_libvlc, "user-agent", VLC_VAR_STRING );
+    var_SetString( p_libvlc, "user-agent", "(LibVLC "VERSION")" );
+
     /* Initialize playlist and get commandline files */
     p_playlist = playlist_Create( VLC_OBJECT(p_libvlc) );
     if( !p_playlist )

src/libvlc.sym

@@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ libvlc_release
 libvlc_retain
 libvlc_set_fullscreen
 libvlc_set_log_verbosity
+libvlc_set_user_agent
 libvlc_toggle_fullscreen
 libvlc_toggle_teletext
 libvlc_track_description_release