# Change gem user agent

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/change-gem-user-agent/190339>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 18, 2010, 12:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/change-gem-user-agent/190339 "2010-06-18T00:32:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![a708387](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b4bc9f/32.png) [@a708387](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/a708387)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 12:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/change-gem-user-agent/190339/1 "2010-06-18T00:32:18Z")

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How do I change the gem user agent? We are behind a proxy server which  
does not allow the gem user agent.

I checked /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/ on Ubuntu.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![a708387](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b4bc9f/32.png) [@a708387](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/a708387)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 12:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/change-gem-user-agent/190339/2 "2010-06-18T00:50:12Z")

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It’s in  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rubygems-update-1.3.7/lib/rubygems/remote\_fetcher.rb  
lines 316-319 on my rubygems 1.3.7. Normally I wouldn’t suggest  
changing  
it in the files directly but I don’t see a convenient way to get around  
it.

-Jonathan N.