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"I often am repulsed that servers reads user agent." That is a backwards way of looking at it, they dont take the user agent, you give it. You you give any user
by ollybee 2y ago
"I often am repulsed that servers reads user agent." That is a backwards way of looking at it, they dont take the user agent, you give it. You you give any user agent you like or none.
No one providing a free resource online has any obligation to treat your requests in a particular way. If you dont like the way a particular HTTP service is responding, then dont send it requests.
- Joker_vD 2y agoThe thing is, I've seen quite several web servers that refuse to serve your request unless you provide any User-Agent, and I mean any: it can even be "}__test|O:21:\" (which is not a valid UA), but it can't be missing. Yeah, sure, very security, much protection.