add pooch fetch user-agent header #1202
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🚀 Pull Request
Description
This pull-request injects a
User-Agent
into the headers of arequests.get
issued bypooch.Pooch.fetch
when requesting to download an asset.This is to avoid potential
HTTP 403 Forbidden
responses from GitHub i.e., RTD servers have unfortunately started to experience this issue for several projects building their documentation.For further details see readthedocs/readthedocs.org#11763.