Top "User-agent" questions

A user agent is a piece of software (a software agent) that acts on behalf of a user.

Getting the User Agent with JavaScript

I'd like to get a script that can grab the user's user agent and prop it to an attribute. I'm …

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How to use curl to get a GET request exactly same as using Chrome?

I have a web api http://something.com/api and I want to use GET to get the response body. …

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What is the iOS 6 user agent string?

What is the iOS 6.0 user agent string? Previous user-agent strings: iOS 5.1 - What is the iOS 5.1 user agent string? iOS 5.0 …

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Change user-agent for Selenium web-driver

I have the following code in Python: from selenium.webdriver import Firefox from contextlib import closing with closing(Firefox()) as …

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How does HTTP_USER_AGENT work?

Possible Duplicate: Why navigator.appCodeName returning Mozilla? When I get the PHP server variable HTTP_USER_AGENT with this code: &…

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Sites not accepting wget user agent header

When I run this command: wget --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0" http://yahoo.com ...I …

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How big can a user agent string get?

If you were going to store a user agent in a database, how large would you accomdate for? I found …

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Why do Chrome and IE put "Mozilla 5.0" in the User-Agent they send to the server?

When I myself send many requests to the server I found it amazing that in IE if I choose opera …

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How to recognize Facebook User-Agent

When sharing one of my pages on FB, I want to display something different. Problem is, I prefer not to …

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Changing the user agent of the WebBrowser control

I am trying to change the UserAgent of the WebBrowser control in a Winforms application. I have successfully achieved this …

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