The client application used with a particular network protocol, such as http: or ftp:
Fields in an extended web server log file identifying the browser and platform used by a visitor
An HTTP header (HTTP_USER_AGENT) that can identify the model of an accessing i-mode terminal
A program that accesses documents on the Web for any purpose This includes Web browsers, download managers, link checking programs, and indexing robots for search engines
the software that interprets HTML documents This includes graphical browsers, text-only browsers, non-visual browsers like audio or braille browsers, etc
The client code that initiates a web reqest These are often browsers, editors, spiders or other end user tools (RFC2616)
A user agent is any device that interprets HTML documents User agents include visual browsers (text-only and graphical), non-visual browsers (audio, Braille), search robots, proxies, etc
A software application which is used to view a document to which styles have been applied Typically, this would be a Web browser which visually displays HTML, but CSS can be applied to content for a range of media devices which have media specific style properties See also CSS2 media stylesheet glossary
The user agent is the client application that requests a document from an HTTP server When the client sends a request to an HTTP server, it typically sends the name of the user agent with the request header so that the server can determine the capabilities of the client software
The term 'user agent' refers to any software that interprets HTML documents This includes graphical browsers, text-only browsers and non-visual browsers such as audio or braille browsers
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An OSI application process that represents a user in the X 400 Message Handling System It creates, submits, and takes delivery of messages for the user In X 400 mail systems, the user agent is the client component that provides the X 400 envelope, headers, and addressing The user agent sends the messages to the X 400 mail server, or Message Transfer Agent, which then routes the messages to their destinations
A user agent is a generic term for any program used for accessing a website This includes graphical browsers (such as Internet Explorer, Netscape or Opera), robots and spiders, and any other software program that acts as an "agent" for a someone or something accessing Web content
A User Agent is any device that interprets HTML (or other web-) documents The most commonly used User Agents are presently Web browsers on computer screens However, apart from other types of visual user agents (such as PDA screens, projectors and more) there are also non-visual User Agents, such as search robots, speech synthesizer and Braille readers To indicate this wide variety of media that HTML caters for, it is thus more appropriate to talk of a User Agent than of a browser
A mail agent that allows a user to compose a message, provides recipient addresses, and receives messages
A user agent is another name for a WAP device or web browser, that interprets content coded in formats such as WML, WMLScript, HTML etc WAP device and microbrowser are other terms for a UA
A component of a distributed system that presents an interface and processes requests on behalf of a user; for example, a www browser or a mail user agent
Client Software that renders a document given the Content and Formatting information relevant to that Content