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Your User-Agent String

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About the User-Agent String

The User-Agent (or UA) string is sent along in the headers of every HTTP request so the server knows what type of browser is making the request. For a quick refresher on the User-Agent string, check out George Shephard's article in MSDN Magazine. Two MSDN articles describe User-Agent headers: Understanding User-Agent Strings, and Best Practices for detecting the Internet Explorer version.

Want Internet Explorer to simulate another version? 

IE8+ users: Check out the free User-Agent Picker add-on, which enables changing your UA string without restarting the browser.

Otherwise, run one of the following scripts and restart all browser instances to see the change:


Your browser sent the following headers:
Accept: */*
Host: bayden.com
User-Agent: claudebot
X-Original-URL: /uahtml5.aspx

ASPNET's HTTPBrowserCapabilities object reports that, based on the User-Agent, your Browser has the following capabilities:
Type = Unknown
Name = Unknown
Version = 0.0
Major Version = 0
Minor Version = 0
Platform = Unknown
Is Beta = False
Is Crawler = False
Is AOL = False
Is Win16 = False
Is Win32 = False
Supports Frames = False
Supports Tables = False
Supports Cookies = True
Supports VBScript = False
Supports JavaScript = False
Supports Java Applets = False
Supports ActiveX Controls = False

Document mode  clientCaps Info

The following script commands will generate a text file containing all UA-override registry settings.
reg query "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent" /s > Reg.txt
reg query "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\User Agent" /s >> Reg.txt
reg query "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent" /s >> Reg.txt
reg query "HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent" /s >> Reg.txt
reg query "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\User Agent" >> Reg.txt
reg query "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\User Agent" /s >> Reg.txt
reg query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\User Agent" >> Reg.txt



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