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You can force an up.time monitor to check a web site website as a particular browser by adding a user agent string to one of the following monitors:

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A Web browser sends a user agent string to identify itself to a Web server. The information in a user agent string includes the operating system on which the browser is running, as well as the name of the browser and its version number. The content of a user agent string varies by Web browser.

 

Note: see the Wikipedia User Agent page for more information on user agent strings.

 

Some example, user agent strings for common browsers:

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  • Internet Explorer

    Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Win32)

    Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)

     

  • Firefox

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060321 Firefox/2.0.0.4

     

  • Mozilla

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130

    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060417