如何在python中制作准确的用户代理字符串？

Question

I want to test a wsgi application. I want to make an accurate environ variable without making any socket connections or http calls. (If my test framework is the server, and the app lives on the same machine, why make http calls?)

I found webtest and am currently looking at it's source to figure it out (it's not working for google app engine apps for some reason).

My current issue with making an accurate environ variable is the user-agent. I can get system information with import platform; platform.uname() import platform; platform.uname() , but it returns Darwin for Macbooks and not Macintosh , which is found in a user-agent string when sent from a macbook. I've found multiple libraries to generate 'fake' user-agents, but I want to make the real one.

Answer 1

If you're using Google App Engine, and the issue is having an accurate user agent from within a test , first thing is you'll probably want to use App Engine Testbed . From there there are special instructions on using webtest . Unless you're doing something weird, that should work just fine.

The way then to pass custom headers, including user agent, is like this ( per the docs ):

app.get('/path', [params], [headers], [extra_environ], ...)

So for example:

app.get('/foo', headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla'})