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December 08, 2008
Google & I
I was brushing off my Java skills the other day. It's been a little while and I ran into a task I could not, from memory, recall how to write. So I turned to Google and quickly came up with this post from 1996(!) on the subject:
` From: Lawrence Page
I have a web robot which is a Java app. I need to be able to set the User-Agent field in the HTTP header in order to be a good net citizen (so people know who is accessing their server). Anyone have any ideas?
Right now, Java sends a request that includes something like:
User-Agent: Java/1.0beta2
I'd rather not rewrite all the HTTP stuff myself. I tried just searching in the JDK for the Java/1.0beta2 figuring I could just change the string, but I couldn't find it. Perhaps it is stored as a unicode string?
An easy method of setting the User-Agent field should probably be added to Java, so people can properly identify their programs.
Thanks, Larry Page `
Hmm, I wonder what kind of "web robot" this Larry Page was working on and hope his project was successful!
Does it bode well for me that I ran into the same question?
Posted at 12:17 AM | Permalink
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That's awesome. I always love these things, where it's like "before they were stars".
Good stuff!
Posted by: John Rockefeller | December 08, 2008 at 04:32 AM
good
Posted by: rajaash | December 08, 2008 at 07:19 AM
Haha Larry Page lit your ass up with some napalm!
Feel the burn my niggas.
Posted by: Ibod Catooga | December 08, 2008 at 09:57 AM
Only that Google used Python for its robots.
Posted by: Cristian | December 08, 2008 at 05:32 PM
This shows how the leaps of men are sometimes made off others shoulders.
Posted by: Sean | December 09, 2008 at 06:51 AM
Haha - That's brilliant! Great find! :D
Posted by: Michael Martin | December 12, 2008 at 04:00 AM
All Google crawlers are python based. Especially the crawlers.
Posted by: Scott | December 20, 2008 at 07:36 AM
I questioning the legitimacy of the post since both the question and response are dated exactly 3am.
Posted by: EW | January 01, 2009 at 10:57 PM
@BW - interesting find. Poking around a bit I can see that most if not all all old Usenet posts from that period have a date header and not a time (as can be seen in the raw message). Apparently the standards of 1996 did not demand a time field.
So, Google Groups simply set 0:00 (PST) as the time when importing the old Usenet archives. You see 3am because you're on EST.
Posted by: Guy Rosen | January 02, 2009 at 12:48 AM
I guess Larry Page switched to Python after getting frustrated with Java.
Posted by: Nico | October 06, 2009 at 07:15 AM
An easy method of setting the User-Agent field should probably be added to Java, so people can properly identify their programs. I am also interested on the web robot that Larry Bode had set-up. Hope he was able to complete it and make it available for critic. Nice work.
Posted by: Woody Smith | September 10, 2011 at 05:02 AM
I think the thing has been resolved already. Its been quite a year now. I wonder if Larry Page has still confusion on the Java thing now.
Posted by: Keyword Tool | September 22, 2011 at 10:45 AM
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