You can force an Uptime Infrastructure Monitor monitor to check a website as a particular browser by adding a user agent string to one of the following monitors:

  • HTTP (Web Services), in the HTTP Header Settings field.
  • Web Application Response Time, in the User Agent String field.

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.

Review the Wikipedia User Agent page for more information on user agent strings.

See the following topics for user agent strings for common browsers.

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

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