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What is user agent parsing?
This information, gleaned directly from the User-Agent string itself (a process known as User-Agent parsing) typically includes browser, web rendering engine, operating system and device. Deeper information can be returned when the User-Agent string is mapped to an additional set of data about the underlying device.
What purpose does user agent serve?
A user agent is any software that retrieves and presents Web content for end users or is implemented using Web technologies. User agents include Web browsers, media players, and plug-ins that help in retrieving, rendering and interacting with Web content.
Why do user agents start with Mozilla?
It spoofs Netscape by starting its User-Agent with Mozilla/ because web servers were routinely browser sniffing and serving pages with frames – a feature supported by both Netscape and IE, but not other browsers of the era – to Netscape only.
What is client User-Agent?
A User Agent Client (UAC) is a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) or Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) application that serves as a peer-to-peer (P2P) communication gateway and generates distributed network service requests. A UAC is a network server, email client, search engine or Web browser.
Why is Mozilla in every user agent?
Why is it important to track user agent?
Tracking User Agent to Enhance Data Storing the user agent as an additional context in your digital analytics solution can truly benefit advanced analytics use cases like device-specific segmenting or custom bot filtering.
Why do web applications make use of Session Management?
Additionally, web applications will make use of sessions once the user has authenticated. This ensures the ability to identify the user on any subsequent requests as well as being able to apply security access controls, authorized access to the user private data, and to increase the usability of the application.
How can web applications keep track of anonymous users?
Web applications can create sessions to keep track of anonymous users after the very first user request. An example would be maintaining the user language preference. Additionally, web applications will make use of sessions once the user has authenticated.
What is the purpose of Session Management in OWASP?
The session management implementation defines the exchange mechanism that will be used between the user and the web application to share and continuously exchange the session ID.