What is a User Agent?
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Monday, January 01, 2007
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Summary
A User Agent is a string that a web browser passes to a web server or website telling it what type of browser it is and what type of platform it's running on. It is not a reliable indicator since many browsers try to spoof others so that they won't be locked out from websites that try to require a certain type of browser.
Find out what your browsers user agent is saying about itself.