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User-Agent

0001-01-01

User-Agents refer to strings that identify the software and versioning information of clients connecting to remote services, typically HTTP.

A client’s user agent look something like this:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36


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