What is my users agent?

In simple words, it’s a string of text that is unique for each software or browser on the internet and holds the technical information about your device and operating system. User-agent is present in the HTTP headers when the browser wants to connect with the webserver.

What is AppleWebKit 537.36 Khtml like Gecko used for?

AppleWebKit/537.36 indicates what browser rendering engine is used. A rendering engine is what transforms HTML into an interactive webpage on the user’s screen. The WebKit browser engine was developed by Apple and is primarily used by Safari, Chromium, and all other WebKit-based browsers. (KHTML, like Gecko).

Can user agent be faked?

The process is called user-agent spoofing. Yes, when a browser or any client sends a different user-agent HTTP header from what they are and fake it that is called spoofing.

What is device user agent?

The User-Agent (UA) string is contained in the HTTP headers and is intended to identify devices requesting online content. The User-Agent tells the server what the visiting device is (among many other things) and this information can be used to determine what content to return.

What is Apple WebKit used for?

WebKit is a browser engine developed by Apple and primarily used in its Safari web browser, as well as all iOS web browsers. WebKit is also used by the BlackBerry Browser, PlayStation consoles beginning from the PS3, the Tizen mobile operating systems, and a browser included with the Amazon Kindle e-book reader.

What is a user agent tracking?

The user agent (UA) is part of the HTTP header and gets populated whenever a request is made from a client (e.g. your browser) to a server (e.g. a web server). It contains information about the browser and the operating system of your device.

What is the most common user-agent?

List of most common user agents

  • Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36.
  • Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:53.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/53.0.
  • Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/5.0; Trident/5.0)

What is user agent used for?

A user agent is any software that retrieves and presents Web content for end users or is implemented using Web technologies. User agents include Web browsers, media players, and plug-ins that help in retrieving, rendering and interacting with Web content.

What is an example of user agent?

Browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Google’s Chrome as well as Safari and Opera are examples of user agents. However, other applications can also act as user agents. Examples are: Crawlers: Googlebot, Yahoo!