User Agent String History

[Azareal]

https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/
This is an interesting article which goes into why user agent strings are so messed up lol

Writing a user agent parser these days can be quite involved, as you have to do an interesting dance to extract the "real identity" of a browser lol

 

[Slix]

Oh my. That was definitely quite the read. 😛

It really is fascinating, knowing more of the history, but also, since you can make your User Agent String anything you want nowadays, it doesn't really matter what any of it says.

 

[mav3n]

User agents are also really easy to exploit. You can essentially turn your device into anything to fool systems or logs. *whistles*