User-Agent header for AP requests

[julian]

@[email protected] I noticed in the latest release notes for Fedify that it now sends a user agent for AP requests.

Was there a specific reason that this was implemented? I noticed that GoToSocial sometimes rejects my requests/activities, and I am assuming this has to do with the User-Agent header (or lack thereof) that I am sending. GtS seems to think I'm a bot, so I thought perhaps you ran into something similar?

cc @[email protected] (not sure which one's your main handle)

[thisismissem@hachyderm.io]

@julian @[email protected] @[email protected] yeah, it helps with federation for instances sitting behind like Cloudflare and similar.

[hongminhee@fosstodon.org]

@julian Like @thisismissem said, we set the User-Agent header in Fedify to go over firewalls, etc.

[julian]

@[email protected] @[email protected] thanks both!