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`totals.browser` contains user agents (or something similar). Why are there (personal?) email addresses in there as well? Who sets that as their user agent?
by NV2k9JtLJpba5BN 5y ago
`totals.browser` contains user agents (or something similar).
Why are there (personal?) email addresses in there as well? Who sets that as their user agent?
- keewee7 5y ago>Why are there (personal?) email addresses in there as well? Who sets that as their user agent? Might be some programming exercise. It's a common network programming exercise to build a HTTP client using bare sockets. But they don't look like student email addresses.
- NavinF 5y agoSome APIs require contact info in the user agent header. For example, all calls to the reddit API are supposed to contain the dev’s reddit /u/username in the user agent.
- mxuribe 5y agoI think for respectful web scraping it is common/preferred etiquette to include some contact info.