[Feature request] send an user agent in hkp request

[David Shaw]

On Jan 30, 2013, at 11:04 AM, Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:10, dshaw at jabberwocky.com said:
> 
>> Hmm.  Are you suggesting removing the Version header completely, or would simply changing the default to --no-emit-version handle this?
> 
> I fear that there are applications which expect the Version header or at
> least a header and thus I suggest to change it from
> 
>  Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux)
> to
>  Version: GnuPG
> 
> (maybe to "GnuPG v1" and "GnuPG v2" to see how often both branches are
> used).
> 
> And before someone asks, we could of course add a --emit-full-version ;-)

Perhaps:

  --emit-version=full
  --emit-version=short
  --emit-version=none (or --no-emit-version)

Then just default to "short".

David