Best practices for custom http user-agent strings?

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Noufal Ibrahim picture Noufal Ibrahim · May 4, 2010 · Viewed 21.4k times · Source

I'm developing an application that communicates with an internal web service using HTTP.

Are there any "best practices" for custom user-agent strings so that I can put a nice one in my app? It's a Python library and the lower transport is Python's own httplib. Should the user-agent string say that or something else?

Answer

zaf picture zaf · May 4, 2010

For internal use you can use anything really.

Of course, internal or external its always a good idea to include contact information, either web or email address, in case something breaks or application goes out of control.

Check this big list of user agents for inspiration: http://www.user-agents.org/

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