How can I set the User-Agent header using the node module?

Im trying to test that my system idenfifies user-agents correctly

using mocha, in my test code, before function - I have:

        before(function(done) { 
              //...some actions
              //...some actions
               superagent.post('http://localhost:8080/api/v1/path1')
                    .send(body)
                    .set('Referrer', 'http://dummy.domain.com/somepage.html')
                    .set('User-Agent', "some spoofed agent")
                    .end(function (e, r) {
                        res = r;
                        _done();
                    });
       })

however,the server gets

'node-superagent/1.3.0'

Help?

[ixtli]

I’m also having this issue when doing

            request
                .get(url)
                .set('User-Agent', uaString)
                .end((err, resp) => {
                    console.log(resp.body);
                    done();
                });

with node 6.2.1.

I think it’s clear that OP was not trying to override this request from a browser, otherwise it would not have identified itself as node-superagent/1.3.0.

EDIT: I can also confirm that the object that is being returned by .end() has a top level key called _headers which does contain ‘user-agent’ (lowercase) with a value of uaString.

[timsar2]

npm install ionic@latest … GitHub blocks requests without a User-Agent header