Installer Framework creates 'blacklisted' QNetworkRequests

MattR

The Installer Framework creates QNetworkRequests with the default User-Agent of "Mozilla/5.0". See example here.

On many web hosts, this User-Agent value triggers Mod Security rule 900095: "Bad UA :: Fake Mozilla Agent", which causes the download to fail.

The solution is to set the User-Agent header to any other value. Is this a known issue? Are there any workarounds?

SGaist

Hi and welcome to devnet,

Did you already checked the bug report system for something similar ?

One thing that could be done but requires modification of the installer framework would be to manually set the user agent like:

QNetworkRequest request;
request.setUrl(url);
request.setRawHeader("User-Agent", "MyInstaller 1.0");

Tim.Jenssen