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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.
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.
There are qualities that are useful for having different responses, like supported language, whether the browser accepts gzipped content, etc.
That's in separate headers