Bruce,

> Can curl send a request to a web server in a way that makes it impossible
> for the web server to know that it's from curl, and not a user doing a
> manual webpage request in a browser?
>
> I mean, I presume there's some way to send the equivalent of a browser
> id/agent string but is there anything more subtle that would tell a server
> curl's involved?

You can enter any value you want in —user-agent and see other usages on the cURL Manual Page <http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html#-a> and on HTTP Scripting <http://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.html#User_Agent>.

David

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Received on 2014-11-02