[Bug 1825000] Re: Add ability for mirrors to distinguish interactive and non-interactive apt runs

Julian Andres Klode julian.klode at canonical.com
Wed Mar 25 16:59:27 UTC 2020


The attached merge proposal adds the name of the systemd unit that we
are running under to the HTTP User-Agent field. Is that sufficient?

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Title:
  Add ability for mirrors to distinguish interactive and non-interactive
  apt runs

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in apt source package in Eoan:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  As part of a larger scale plan to manage traffic to the main archive
  servers it would be useful if apt could provide a facility for us to
  identify interactive vs. non-interactive traffic on the server side,
  ideally via a header of some kind.

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