User Agent String:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/22.0.1230.0 Safari/537.4

The breakdown

Explanation of what each part of the User Agent string represents.

Part Type Description Version
Mozilla/5.0 Misinformation.
Windows NT 6.1 Operating System Windows 7 6.1
WOW64 Web Browser 32-bit Internet Explorer running on 64-bit Windows
AppleWebKit/537.4 Rendering Engine WebKit Rendering Engine 537.4
KHTML, like Gecko Misinformation. Apple WebKit is based on KDE KHTML
Chrome/22.0.1230.0 Web Browser Google Chrome Browser 22.0.1230.0
Safari/537.4 Misinformation.
What is a "User Agent"?

A User Agent is a short string that web browsers and other applications send to identify themselves to web servers.

Unfortunately, most browsers falsify part of their User-Agent header in an attempt to be compatible with more web servers.

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