Set the User-Agent in a HTTP request using Rust reqwest

• User Agent
• reqwest
• header

Dependencies

[package]
name = "reqwest-set-user-agent"
version = "0.1.0"
edition = "2021"

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[dependencies]
reqwest = { version = "0.11", features = ["blocking"] }

The code

use reqwest::header::USER_AGENT;

fn main() {
    let client = reqwest::blocking::Client::new();

    let res = client
    .get("http://httpbin.org/headers")
    .send().unwrap();
    println!("{}", res.text().unwrap());

    let res = client
    .get("http://httpbin.org/headers")
    .header(USER_AGENT, "Rust Maven 1.42")
    .send().unwrap();
    println!("{}", res.text().unwrap());
}

The output

{
  "headers": {
    "Accept": "*/*",
    "Host": "httpbin.org",
    "X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-65b23d5c-7291d26c5121b8d160a837f9"
  }
}

{
  "headers": {
    "Accept": "*/*",
    "Host": "httpbin.org",
    "User-Agent": "Rust Maven 1.42",
    "X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-65b23d5c-1376c1c654589f201d8f958c"
  }
}