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tags: [world-wide-web]
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created: Friday, December 20, 2024
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# User agent
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_User agent_ is the technical term for a web browser. So named because it acts
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on behalf of the user.
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When a browser makes a request to a web server it includes a header value called
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`User-Agent` that describes the browser.
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