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User Agent String #18

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deanebarker opened this issue Mar 30, 2012 · 1 comment

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deanebarker commented Mar 30, 2012

To be polite, we need a custom user agent string with some indications of what this request is doing. People might accuse us of assholery, otherwise.

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sggottlieb commented Mar 30, 2012

I can see in urllib2 where we would set it. But what should it say? "We are all in your business snooping your tech?"

How about "Mozilla/1.22 (compatible; MSIE 2.0; Windows 3.1) - IM BACK!"?

To be more honest how about just "CM Field Guide"

Here is a good list of examples:

http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/useragentstring.php

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