Get default browser User-Agent

Question

In my application I make a few POST requests. I would like to simulate the client default browser user-agent because some websites make the most absurd checks.

Right now I just have a static one like this:

request.setRawHeader("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0");

How can I make this dynamic?

@LaszloPapp The application should make requests with the same User-Agent of the default browser that the user has installed. — Tenza
– Tenza, Commented Dec 31, 2013 at 4:40
@LaszloPapp I'm not sure if it is worth it. All the solutions I came-up with involve opening the default browser, wish wouldn't be good. Just looking for some ideas. OS, mainly Windows. — Tenza
– Tenza, Commented Dec 31, 2013 at 4:52
You could probably do some eavesdropping as the last resort, at least, but that is not a "nice" way of doing it. :) — László Papp
– László Papp, Commented Dec 31, 2013 at 4:55

James Zeng · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-14 16:31:50Z

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Can you use windows API ObtainUserAgentString?

HRESULT ObtainUserAgentString( _In_ DWORD dwOption = 0, _Out_ LPCSTR *pcszUAOut, _Out_ DWORD *cbSize );

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms775114(v=vs.85).aspx

answered Mar 14, 2014 at 16:31

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Tenza Over a year ago

Interesting. I will test it and get back.

LB-- Over a year ago

Looks like this only works to get really old Internet Explorer user agent strings, not the user agent of the user's current default browser.

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