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Development Tools HTTP Basics GET and POST Requests in a Browser Intro to Chrome Developer Tools

Noah Fields
Noah Fields
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Posted by Noah Fields
Noah Fields
13,985 Points

Why does the User-Agent header contain multiple different web browsers?

It seems interesting that the User-Agent header doesn't specify exactly which web browser is being used in this video, and rather provides several options. I replicated these steps myself as I watched, and found that my own User-Agent header looks different but appears, at the very least, to refer to only the web browser I personally am using (a Firefox variant, for the record) and does not mention Safari or anything else.

For what reason would the User-Agent header not have precision in web browsers? Does it imply some commonality between them that is only apparent on the back-end?

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Jonatan Witoszek
Jonatan Witoszek
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Jonatan Witoszek
Jonatan Witoszek
15,384 Points

WOW! That's crazy... Thanks for the link ;)