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

[R KANNAN]

That worked perfectly. Thanks.

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam at whitemice.org>wrote:

> 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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