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[–] [email protected] 67 points 11 months ago (15 children)

User Agent String: A browser's way of lying about what it is, in order to not trigger some server's arcane content filtering system.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 11 months ago (14 children)

User Agents should be optional. The whole idea of the Internet was that the server should respond the same way to the same request regardless of the client's qualities.

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