What is the default user agent when using 'wget' on Linux?
What is the default user agent when using the 'wget' command on Linux. I'm not trying to fake out a website when it's being used, I simply want to know what appears in the Apache logs. Thanks!
You can change it with command --user-agent=agent-string
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The man page says:
Wget normally identifies as ‘Wget/version’, version being the current version number of Wget.
From the manual
The http protocol allows the clients to identify themselves using a User-Agent header field. This enables distinguishing the www software, usually for statistical purposes or for tracing of protocol violations. Wget normally identifies as ‘Wget/version’, version being the current version number of Wget.
source http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget.html