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User Agent InfoIntroductionEach time a program (called user agent) requests a page from a web server it sets an environment variable called HTTP_USER_AGENT. This variable contains the user agent name, and, in some cases, additional information such as the operating system the user agent runs under. Web Resources provides only information on robots. Robots are a special kind of user agents which are, as opposed to web browsers, not directly human-controlled but rather autonomously acting programs which search the web for information. We categorized them into four categories. Robot CategoriesSearch Engine SpidersSearch Engine Spiders are used by search engines to index web sites for their databases. E-Mail CollectorsE-Mail Collectors are user agents used to harvest e-mail addresses from a web pages, usually to flood these e-mail addresses with unsolicited commercial e-mail later. Code ValidatorsCode Validators are very versatile. They are deployed in services such as dead link checking, user-friendliness tests, HTML validation, banner exchange code integrity checks, and many more. Miscellaneous User AgentsMiscellaneous User Agents which don't deserve a category of their own, as well as user agents of unknown purpose. Alphabetical IndexAlphabetical Index of all database entries. ![]() Last updated: May 1, 1999 by [an error occurred while processing this directive]
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