Enable setting a custom User-Agent header

[jtroe]

Problem description

My organization's enterprise agreement with Anaconda requires requests outbound to anaconda.org to contain o/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 in the User-Agent header, where 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 is our orgid.

I would like to be able to augment or replace if necessary, the User-Agent header using an environment variable or some other sane option that would allow me to change this at runtime, configurable on my machine.

Thank you! [Very much enjoying the software!]

[baszalmstra]

Makes sense to me. How do you currently do that with conda?

[jtroe]

Currently we have a custom build of conda we are using in house with this change baked in. I would prefer a less heavy handed approach for us to incorporate pixi into our workloads.

Thanks again!

[wolfv]

@jtroe IMO that can be a configurable variable. It's a little bonkers to me that this should be the user agent value and not some other header (like X-AnacondaOrgId = ...).

We could either make it work by observing a certain environment variable and/or by adding a configuration value to the global pixi config.

[baszalmstra]

Is that what Anaconda recommends? To use a fork of conda to comply?

Either way happy to implement something for this!

[baszalmstra]

@jezdez Would you be able to confirm what the appropriate way is comply to the "organization's enterprise agreement with Anaconda"? Should the User-Agent be configurable? Or can we add a header? Any insight would be helpful!

[baszalmstra]

I've asked this question on the official conda zulip. I hope we get some clarification.

[jezdez]

Hey there, thanks for pinging me about it. Regarding the use of the User-Agent header: this is for backward compatibility with old versions of conda. In newer versions of conda (>=24.11.0) we support passing additional request headers to conda repositories via two new plugin hooks, such as Anaconda's commercial repositories, outside the User-Agent header.

@jtroe Please reach out to your partnership representative at Anaconda to discuss this further. Neither this repo nor the conda OSS Zulip forum are ideal for the conversations about it.

[wolfv]

@jezdez sorry, but this doesn't really explain what we should do for pixi. What other headers are respected and valid for supplying the Org ID so that pixi users can be compliant?

[jezdez]

@wolfv I don't have a better answer for you at the moment, and have raised the topic internally.

[wolfv]

OK, thanks for clarifying that.

[jezdez]

No problem, I'm sure we'll get to the bottom of this.

[wolfv]

@jezdez any news?