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Set a User-Agent header on OSV API requests #49

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@andrew

Requests to api.osv.dev currently send no User-Agent:

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)
request["Content-Type"] = "application/json"

lib/brew/vulns/osv_client.rb:67-68

Net::HTTP sends a generic Ruby UA by default. Setting something like brew-vulns/#{VERSION} (+https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-brew-vulns) makes it easier for the OSV team to identify traffic if they ever need to reach out about usage patterns or rate limits, and is just good API etiquette.

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