[mdlug] [OT] Yahoo web server detects my java bot HTTP request

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 09:17 -0500, R KANNAN wrote:
> I am just curious how the webserver detected that the request (perhaps it
> was looking for browser properties: Firefox/IE/Opera , version etc.) and
> how it can be included in my HTTP requests.

Probably;  I always set my User-Agent header on requests to be Internet
Explorer.  Commerce sites rarely screw with IE.

"Mozilla/4.0 (Windows; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR
2.0.50727)"

<http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/Internet%20Explorer/> is a handy
page.

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