Change User Agent for RSS?

[worldgnat]

I'm trying to add a subscription from CBC (for instance, https://www.cbc.ca/webfeed/rss/rss-canada) and Liferea fails to parse the feed on "empty input". I was about to file a bug report, but I did some digging first, and if I switch my browser's user agent string to the same on as Liferea, it fails to create a secure connection. My suspicion is that CBC doesn't recognize the user agent and is therefore blocking the connection for some reason.

The RSS feed is valid and other RSS readers seem to be able to add it successfully.

Has anyone encountered this before? Is there a way to change Liferea's user agent string?

Here's the debug output from Liferea when I try to update the subscription:
16:45:00 NET : downloading https://www.cbc.ca/webfeed/rss/rss-canada

GET /webfeed/rss/rss-canada HTTP/2
Soup-Debug-Timestamp: 1772930700
Soup-Debug: SoupSession 1 (0x55604c177c50), SoupMessage 8 (0x55604d4818b0), GSocket 1 (0x55604d791b30)
Soup-Host: www.cbc.ca
Accept: application/atom+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,text/xml;q=0.8,/;q=0.7
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
User-Agent: Liferea/1.15.8 (Android 14; Mobile; https://lzone.de/liferea/) AppleWebKit (KHTML, like Gecko)

< HTTP/2 0 (null)
< Soup-Debug-Timestamp: 1772930700
< Soup-Debug: SoupMessage 8 (0x55604d4818b0)

16:45:00 NET : download status code: 0

[lwindolf]

There is an environment variable you can set to make Liferea use a custom user agent LIFEREA_UA. It is documented in the manpage.