From d910148a96cca05bc40ac5b5773effa9b92702f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bas van Kervel <bas@ethdev.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 12:22:12 +0200
Subject: Set ipc channel as user agent client

---
 rpc/comms/ipc_unix.go | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'rpc/comms/ipc_unix.go')

diff --git a/rpc/comms/ipc_unix.go b/rpc/comms/ipc_unix.go
index 24aefa5f3..9d90da071 100644
--- a/rpc/comms/ipc_unix.go
+++ b/rpc/comms/ipc_unix.go
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/logger/glog"
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/rpc/codec"
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/rpc/shared"
+	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/rpc/useragent"
 )
 
 func newIpcClient(cfg IpcConfig, codec codec.Codec) (*ipcClient, error) {
@@ -34,7 +35,18 @@ func newIpcClient(cfg IpcConfig, codec codec.Codec) (*ipcClient, error) {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	return &ipcClient{cfg.Endpoint, c, codec, codec.New(c)}, nil
+	coder := codec.New(c)
+	msg := shared.Request{
+		Id:      0,
+		Method:  useragent.EnableUserAgentMethod,
+		Jsonrpc: shared.JsonRpcVersion,
+		Params:  []byte("[]"),
+	}
+
+	coder.WriteResponse(msg)
+	coder.Recv()
+
+	return &ipcClient{cfg.Endpoint, c, codec, coder}, nil
 }
 
 func (self *ipcClient) reconnect() error {
@@ -42,6 +54,15 @@ func (self *ipcClient) reconnect() error {
 	c, err := net.DialUnix("unix", nil, &net.UnixAddr{self.endpoint, "unix"})
 	if err == nil {
 		self.coder = self.codec.New(c)
+
+		msg := shared.Request{
+			Id:      0,
+			Method:  useragent.EnableUserAgentMethod,
+			Jsonrpc: shared.JsonRpcVersion,
+			Params:  []byte("[]"),
+		}
+		self.coder.WriteResponse(msg)
+		self.coder.Recv()
 	}
 
 	return err
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