What's am I using?
Take a peek at what web browsers I use.
What is the HTTP user agent?
HTTP_USER_AGENT is how your web browser identifies itself to a website. It's intention is to allow the web site to know what kind of web browsers are used to view the site, to aid in troubleshooting, and to allow for special devices, like cell phones, to to get a
Examples
So, that's fine and all, but what do those strings mean? In the table below, you will find some common web browser HTTP_USER_AGENT strings and what they correspond to.
| Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7 | |
| Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.7 on Windows XP | |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en) AppleWebKit/522.15.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.3 Safari/522.15.5 | |
| Apple Safari 3.0.3 for Windows XP | This signature belongs to Apple's Safari web browser (v 3.0.3) for Windows. In 2007 Apple released a Windows version of their previously MacOSX exclusive browser. |
| Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20071013 Firefox/2.0.0.7 Flock/0.9.1.3 | |
| Flock 0.9.1.3 for Windows XP | |
| Opera/9.24 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) | |
| Opera 9.24 on Windows XP | This web browser is an independent project that has been gaining a lot of credibility through deals with telephone manufacturers and with Nintnendo. Nintendo offers the Opera browser for it's DS handheld and the Wii console. This particularly signature is the Windows version. |
| Lynx/2.8.3rel.1 libwww-FM/2.14 | |
| Lynx | Lynx is a text only web browser for those that want a fast web browsing experience and are comfortable at the command line prompt (DOS prompt or in my case, UNIX shell). |
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