User-Agent
User-Agent in Internet Web browsing, refers to the name presented by a Web browser with information about the application being used. It is a text string that is sent via the HTTP protocol to a Web server and typically includes the name of the application, operating system, language and version number.
List of examples of user-agent strings
Gecko based browsers
- Mozilla 1.6: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
- Galeon: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030630 Galeon/1.3.8
- Epiphany: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040403 Epiphany/1.2.5
- Netscape 7.2: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040805 Netscape/7.2
- Firefox 0.9.2: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; el; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.2
Internet Explorer
- MSIE 6.0 XP: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
KHTML based browsers
- Konqueror 3.1: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1; Linux 2.4.22-10mdk; X11; i686; fr, fr_FR)
