In computing, the User-Agent header is an HTTP header intended to identify the user agent responsible for making a given HTTP request. Whereas the character...
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like cURL. The user agent is the client in a client–server system. The HTTP User-Agent header is intended to clearly identify the agent to the server....
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in a response header is not specified. The behavior of Pragma: no-cache in a response is implementation specific. While some user agents do pay attention...
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Client Hints (redirect from User-Agent_Client_Hints)
of client a user was using to connect to a server. In 1992, an extension to the HTTP protocol was introduced adding a User-Agent HTTP Header which was sent...
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Email client (redirect from Mail user agent)
reader or, more formally, message user agent (MUA) or mail user agent is a computer program used to access and manage a user's email. A web application which...
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Email#Message header for the format of an email message. Many MUAs allow users to see the raw message source directly, thereby allowing header inspection...
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user agent (e.g. a web browser) to provide a user name and password when making a request. In basic HTTP authentication, a request contains a header field...
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HTTP Strict Transport Security (category Hypertext Transfer Protocol headers)
the user agent via an HTTP response header field named Strict-Transport-Security. HSTS Policy specifies a period of time during which the user agent should...
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UAProf (redirect from User Agent Profiling)
multimedia capabilities and more. This XML data is keyed on the User-Agent: header in a web request. Another approach to the problem is to combine real-time...
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Do Not Track (redirect from Do-Not-Track-Header)
HTTP header field, designed to allow internet users to opt-out of tracking by websites—which includes the collection of data regarding a user's activity...
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SIP user agent; user agents are divided into clients (UACs), which initiate requests, and servers (UASes), which respond to them.: §8 A single user agent...
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Browser sniffing (redirect from User-agent sniffing)
used to view the website in a User-Agent header. Extensive browser techniques enable persistent user tracking even if users try to stay anonymous. See device...
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List of HTTP status codes (redirect from 431 Request Header Fields Too Large)
A user agent may carry out the additional action with no user interaction only if the method used in the second request is GET or HEAD. A user agent may...
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Session Initiation Protocol (redirect from User Agent Server)
as smartphones. In SIP, as in HTTP, the user agent may identify itself using a message header field (User-Agent), containing a text description of the...
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Email (redirect from E-mail headers)
envelope and content; the content consists of a header and a body. Computer-based messaging between users of the same system became possible after the advent...
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HTTP referer (redirect from Referer header)
website address. Some web browsers give their users the option to turn off referrer fields in the request header. Most web browsers do not send the referrer...
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Cross-site request forgery (redirect from Cookie-to-header token)
of an end user's account. The term "CSRF" is also used as an abbreviation in defences against CSRF attacks, such as techniques that use header data, form...
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Nokia Xpress (section User agent)
Tablet Browser". EFF Deeplinks blog. Retrieved 30 December 2013. User-Agent headers for Nokia devices - Nokia Developer Wiki. Developer.nokia.com. Retrieved...
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referrer and user agent headers sent by the requesting client software to prevent their images from being "fuskered", or require users to log in. However...
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Content negotiation (section Agent-driven)
ratings of how well it understands them. More precisely, the user agent provides HTTP headers that lists acceptable aspects of the resource and quality factors...
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submission agent (MSA), or mail submission agent, is a computer program or software agent that receives electronic mail messages from a mail user agent (MUA)...
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Robots.txt (section A "noindex" HTTP response header)
demonstrating multiple user-agents: User-agent: googlebot # all Google services Disallow: /private/ # disallow this directory User-agent: googlebot-news #...
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science, a software agent is a computer program that acts for a user or another program in a relationship of agency. The term agent is derived from the...
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HTTP (section Request header fields)
in its message body. A web browser is an example of a user agent (UA). Other types of user agent include the indexing software used by search providers...
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SIP extensions for the IP Multimedia Subsystem (section Caller preferences and user agent capabilities)
it, with three header fields: Accept-Contact to describe the desired destination user agents, Reject-Contact to state the user agents to avoid, and Request-Disposition...
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numbers found in the field Protocol of the IPv4 header and the Next Header field of the IPv6 header. It is an identifier for the encapsulated protocol...
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HTTP cookie (category Hypertext Transfer Protocol headers)
field of the HTTP request header, but cookies allow for greater precision. This can be demonstrated as follows: If the user requests a page of the site...
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NAT traversal with session border controllers (section SBC handling of user registration and NAT traversal)
In case a user agent is located behind a NAT then it will use a private IP address as its contact address in the contact and via headers as well as the...
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resource, the user agent should send the JWT, typically in the Authorization HTTP header using the Bearer schema. The content of the header might look like...
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acceptLanguageHeader("en-US,en;q=0.5") .acceptEncodingHeader("gzip, deflate") .userAgentHeader("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31...
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