Changing User Agent in Rome

If you are trying to use Rome and Rome Feed Fetcher, you may want to change the user agent.  However, the following will not change the default user agent:


FeedFetcher feedFetcher = new HttpURLFeedFetcher();
feedFetcher.setUserAgent("User Agent 007");
SyndFeed feed = null;
feedURL = new URL(rssUrl);
feed = feedFetcher.retrieveFeed(feedURL);
List entries = feed.getEntries();

To change the user agent you must use the InfoCache as shown:


FeedFetcherCache feedInfoCache = HashMapFeedInfoCache.getInstance();
FeedFetcher feedFetcher = new HttpURLFeedFetcher(feedInfoCache);
feedFetcher.setUserAgent("User Agent 007");
SyndFeed feed = null;
feedURL = new URL(rssUrl);
feed = feedFetcher.retrieveFeed(feedURL);
List entries = feed.getEntries();

Otherwise the User agent is set to “Java/1.5.0_04”. This is odd because the default client for Rome is “Rome Client (http://tinyurl.com/64t5n) Ver: 0.7”. It seems like an attempt to change the user agent without having a HashMapFeedInfoCache will result in changing the user agent, but somehow it reverts to “Java/1.5.0_04” instead of whatever you set it to.

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