How to add an UserAgent to a JSON Request?

[dragi]

Hello,

I want to use the search.twitter.com API. As far as I understood I have to create an URL String that contains my Search Parameters like "http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=test&rpp=5" and do this with the JSON Framework.
Twitter says in it's Docu that every Application should provide a valid User Agent to get the maximum Rate Limit per Hour. How do I add an UserAgent to this string and what is my UserAgent? The whole Web seems to assume that everyone knows what an UserAgent is and how to put it into your App but clearly I don't know and found nothing on how to add a UserAgent to a search.twitter.com string.

Can Someone give me a hint?

Thank you

dragi

[harrytheshark]

Depends how you're connecting to the URL, by default the useragent is set for you to something including the name of your app.

[dragi]

Thank you for you answer and because of that I've realized that it is nothing to put into the URL String.

Looks like this will work:

NSString* userAgent = @"My Cool User Agent";
NSURL* url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://whatsmyuseragent.com/"];
NSMutableURLRequest* request = [[[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] initWithURL:url]
                                autorelease];
[request setValue:userAgent forHTTPHeaderField:@"User-Agent"];

NSURLResponse* response = nil;
NSError* error = nil;
NSData* data = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request
                                     returningResponse:&response
                                                 error:&error];

[harrytheshark]

Yuuup, that'll do it