Making HttpURLConnection look like MS Explorer/firefox/opera etc

Hi,

I am looking to develop solution that makes a connection to a web site server with HttpURLConnection look like one of the common browsers.

Is this possible by modifying the headers etc?

Thanks in advance.

What do you mean by "look like"?

well web site stats will show what browsers are looking at your site, using a site I have for example.

1. MSIE 1,673
2. Netscape (compatible) 82
3. Firefox 42
4. Safari 7
5. Yeti 4

Using HttpURLConnection it will come up as 'Java VM direct socket connection' or something similar, I would like to configure my application to fool the server into believing that it is MSIE.

Just do this:

HttpURLConnection connect = (HttpURLConnection) someURL.openConnection();
connect.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5");

ahh, thank you.

I knew it could be done, I just could not find anything on internet.

Searching on criteria like java, browser, connection, header, mozilla would bring back half the web

Cheers

I had a recent problem with access a url from a Java servlet because it was not a browser. Thanks for this tidbit.

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