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Re: changing UserAgent st

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Darrell Berry wrote:
> Hi
>
> How do I set the UserAgent string used by the underlying connection a
> JEditorPanel uses when it is rendering an HTML page?
>
> ie
>
> if my HTML includes
>
>    <img src="http://mysite.com/cat.jpg">
>
> how/where can I set the User Agent that mysite.com's server will see
> the query coming from, when Java connects to it to pull in that image?
> I don't want to manually set up a connection to pull back the binary
> data and then assemble the content myself -- that's what JEditorPanel
> is for!
>
> But I can't see where I can set this property....?
>
> All help appreciated.
>
> Thanks

Actually, thats NOT what JEditorPanel is for.  the Java standard API
only gives one the hope of supporting web-browser capabilities, without
actually providing the real opportunity.

I would instead look into apache httpclient library:
<URL:http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/>

Good luck.

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