Index: configure.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/configure.in,v
retrieving revision 1.165
diff -u -r1.165 configure.in
--- configure.in	2001/08/10 14:54:11	1.165
+++ configure.in	2001/08/28 23:33:52
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@
 
 dnl Checks for header files.
 AC_HEADER_STDC
-AC_CHECK_HEADERS(fcntl.h sys/time.h sys/types.h unistd.h)
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS(fcntl.h sys/time.h sys/types.h unistd.h sys/utsname.h)
 dnl Avoid including the unix emulation layer if we build mingw executables
 dnl There would be type conflicts between winsock and bsd/unix includes
 if test "x$MINGW32" != "xyes"; then
@@ -506,7 +506,7 @@
 
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(fileno gethostname getpwuid gettimeofday inet_aton \
                select snooze strerror strcasecmp strncasecmp \
-               strlcat strlcpy strstr usleep vsnprintf)
+               strlcat strlcpy strstr usleep vsnprintf uname)
 
 dnl The use of both AC_FUNC_VSNPRINTF and AC_CHECK_FUNCS(vsnprintf) is
 dnl deliberate.
Index: client/clinet.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/client/clinet.c,v
retrieving revision 1.41
diff -u -r1.41 clinet.c
--- client/clinet.c	2001/08/25 10:25:33	1.41
+++ client/clinet.c	2001/08/28 23:33:52
@@ -53,6 +53,10 @@
 #include <winsock.h>
 #endif
 
+#ifdef HAVE_SYS_UTSNAME_H
+#include <sys/utsname.h>
+#endif
+
 #include "capstr.h"
 #include "fcintl.h"
 #include "game.h"
@@ -312,6 +316,10 @@
   char *server;
   int port;
   char str[512];
+  char machine_string[128];
+#ifdef HAVE_UNAME
+  struct utsname un;
+#endif 
 
   if ((proxy_url = getenv("http_proxy"))) {
     if (strncmp(proxy_url,"http://",strlen("http://"))) {
@@ -378,13 +386,30 @@
     my_closesocket(s);
     return NULL;
   }
+
+#ifdef HAVE_UNAME
+  uname(&un);
+  my_snprintf(machine_string,sizeof(machine_string),
+              "%s %s [%s]",
+              un.sysname,
+              un.release,
+              un.machine);
+#else /* ! HAVE_UNAME */
+  /* Fill in here if you are making a binary without sys/utsname.h and know
+     the OS name, release number, and machine architechture */
+  my_snprintf(machine_string,sizeof(machine_string),
+              "unknown unknown [unknown]");
+#endif /* HAVE_UNAME */
+
   my_snprintf(str,sizeof(str),
-              "GET %s%s%s HTTP/1.0\r\nUser-Agent: Freeciv/%s %s\r\n\r\n",
+              "GET %s%s%s HTTP/1.0\r\nUser-Agent: Freeciv/%s %s %s\r\n\r\n",
               proxy_url ? "" : "/",
               urlpath,
               proxy_url ? metaserver : "",
               VERSION_STRING,
-              client_string);
+              client_string,
+              machine_string);
+
 #ifdef HAVE_FDOPEN
   f=fdopen(s,"r+");
   fwrite(str,1,strlen(str),f);