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

 

 

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: