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joemi on March 5, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: History of the browser user-agent string (2008)

Some servers feed different pages depending on whether they think a request is coming from a browser or a bot based on user agent string. Sure it's easy enough for a bot to pretend to be anything, but some servers are still set up to consider the user agent string.

tyingq on March 6, 2018 [–]

Still useful, because of stark differences like “flash works” or “css grid works”.

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