Inconsistent User Agent

Kodi
1

HI
There has been a small bug introduced to the latest version of CoreElec. The user agent when accessing HTTPS sites is inconsistent. Sometimes its “Kodi/18.2 (X11; Linux aarch64) LibreELEC/9.0 App_Bitness/32 Version/18.2-Git:18.2-Leia” and sometimes “Kodi/18.3 (X11; Linux aarch64) CoreELEC/9.0 App_Bitness/32 Version/18.3-Git:18.3-Leia”. Its no biggie I have a program that scans the logs and tells me if the boxes have not been upgraded.

2

We manually changed the user agent as we learned that our users where being tracked via the user agent when devices are polling for addon updates.

3

Hi its the user/agent for content that is inconsistent my media server uses the user agent and IP to identify the box it just appears I now have twice as many boxed than I have. I seem to remember I can add a user agent to the end of the media url. It is just handy to know which boxes need to be updated.

4

Not sure about this but the change was only introduced in 9.0.3.

5

Yes it was fine in 9.02. the weird thing is the User/Agent can change during the playback of the file It normally starts as “… 9.03” but the 206 subsequent requests can be “… 9.02”. As I said it not a problem I just thought you would like to know.

6

I think I may have the problem I dived into the source and found

CoreELEC/packages/mediacenter/kodi/patches/ kodi-ce-005-fix-le-addons.patch

diff --git a/xbmc/filesystem/CurlFile.cpp b/xbmc/filesystem/CurlFile.cpp index 3169bb9..f7c3ab9 100644 --- a/xbmc/filesystem/CurlFile.cpp +++ b/xbmc/filesystem/CurlFile.cpp @@ -1000,6 +1000,11 @@ bool CCurlFile::Open(const CURL& url)

// setup common curl options
SetCommonOptions(m_state, m_failOnError && !CServiceBroker::GetSettingsComponent()->GetAdvancedSettings()->CanLogComponent(LOGCURL));
+

  • if(strcmp(url2.GetHostName().c_str(), “libreelec.tv”)
  • || strcmp(url2.GetHostName().c_str(), “kodi.tv”))
  • g_curlInterface.easy_setopt(m_state->m_easyHandle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, “Kodi/18.2 (X11; Linux aarch64) LibreELEC/9.0 App_Bitness/32 Version/18.2-Git:18.2-Leia”);
  • SetRequestHeaders(m_state);
    m_state->m_sendRange = m_seekable;
    m_state->m_bRetry = m_allowRetry;

    Curl User Agent is set to “Kodi/18.2 (X11; Linux aarch64) LibreELEC/9.0 App_Bitness/32 Version/18.2-Git:18.2-Leia”
7

It’s not a problem, Adam has explained why it’s this way.

8

I found this issue and fixed it for the next version, thanks for reporting it.