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what dose "user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.111 Safari/537.36" mean?

12th Nov 2018, 8:36 PM
LONGTIE👔
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in non browser implementation its kinda emulate which browser that you're using in request. Lie to webserver so it'll think that we're using certain browser.
12th Nov 2018, 9:18 PM
Taste
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user agent in a browser is a protocol type what helps to the backend.
12th Nov 2018, 9:03 PM
Rhyr Core
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Typically I see these as part of a request, in the headers argument. Sometimes passing info like this will help scrape data, especially if the site does not allow "bots"
12th Nov 2018, 10:26 PM
Steven M
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