What is the default user agent when using the 'wget' command on Linux. I'm not trying to fake out a website when it's being used, I simply want to know what appears in the Apache logs. Thanks!
3 Answers
You can change it with command --user-agent=agent-string
.
Wget normally identifies as ‘Wget/version’, version being the current version number of Wget.
From the manual
The http protocol allows the clients to identify themselves using a User-Agent header field. This enables distinguishing the www software, usually for statistical purposes or for tracing of protocol violations. Wget normally identifies as ‘Wget/version’, version being the current version number of Wget.
While the man page says it is Wget/version
(like others pointed out already), it is currently actually:
Wget/version (linux-gnu)
at least on Ubuntu.
To inspect the actual user agent being sent, you can add the -d
option to your wget
call.