How can I emulate my browsers HTTP_USER_AGENT?

[Randell D.]

Folks,

I use Apache/PHP with Webazlier to view the log files. I get a number of
user agents (web browsers?) that visit the website - For example:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)
Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; T-H-U-N-D-E-R-S-T-O-N-E)
Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)
Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; Indy Library)
ia_archiver
SurveyBot/2.2
KaHT

How can I change my http user agent - either via a unix shell script or PHP
to give the same results for my search engine/crawler?

Thanks in advance,
Randell D.

[stephan beal]

Randell D. wrote:

How can I change my http user agent - either via a unix shell script or
PHP to give the same results for my search engine/crawler?

Depends entirely on the client you're using. In Konqueror it's in the
options menu. With curl it's --user-agent 'STRING', with wget it's
--user-agent='STRING', etc., etc.
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