Changing the headers in Base.download to simulate Chrome usage

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Hi,

How do you use specifics headers in Base.download to simulate Chrome usage?

I have found this curl example and I have tried to replicate it with the latest Chrome user-agent for Linux. However, when trying to specify the headers keyword argument described in the user guide, I am told that there is no such thing. What is the correct syntax? I am defining the headers via Dict("user-agent" => "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/112.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"). Also, I have to specify the download folder.

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I think I figured. Base.download has been deprecated since 1.6 and you should use Downloads.download. Also, in order to avoid potential 403 errors, you probably want to use something like this:

headers = Dict(
         "User-Agent" => "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/112.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
         "Accept" => "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8",
         "Accept-Language" => "en-GB,en;q=0.5",
         "Accept-Encoding" => "gzip, deflate, br",
         "Connection" => "keep-alive",
         "Upgrade-Insecure-Requests" => "1",
         "Sec-Fetch-Dest:" => "document",
         "Sec-Fetch-Mode:" => "navigate",
         "Sec-Fetch-Site:" => "none",
         "Sec-Fetch-User:" => "?1"
       )

Downloads.download(url, headers=headers);