HTG Explains: What’s a Browser User Agent?

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Published on Sun, 27 May 2012 10:00:33 GMT Indexed on 2012/05/30 16:47 UTC
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Your browser sends its user agent to every website you connect to. We’ve written about changing your browser’s user agent before – but what exactly is a user agent, anyway?

A user agent is a “string” – that is, a line of text – identifying the browser and operating system to the web server. This sounds simple, but user agents have become a mess over time.

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