Curl set user agent
Curl is a command-line tool for transferring data between a local computer and a remote server
Curl is a command-line tool for transferring data between a local computer and a remote server.
When using curl you can download or upload data using protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, SCP , SFTP and FTP .
The Curl command is pre-installed on most Linux distributions. To check if your Linux distribution has Curl installed, press the shortcut key CTRL+ALT+Tto open Terminal, type curl and press Enter.
If curl is installed, the system will print curl: try 'curl --help' or 'curl --manual' for more information.
Install Curl
Otherwise, the terminal prints the message curl command not found. If you don't have Curl installed, you can install it using your distribution's package manager.
If your computer is running a Debian-based Linux distribution such as Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc. Please run sudo apt install curl to install Curl.
If your computer is running a Redhat-based Linux distribution, such as CentOS, Fedora, etc. Please run sudo yum install curl to install Curl.
sudo yum install curl
sudo apt install curlSet the User-Agent
You should encounter the situation that when using different browsers, some browsers can download, or some browsers cannot download. Or provide different page content according to the visitor's device and browser.
This is because the server program distinguishes the user's device type according to the User-Agent, so as to determine whether to return different content or prevent your download and access.
To prevent the server from serving different content based on the visitor's User-Agent. Use the -A option of the Curl command to emulate the User-Agent user agent.
curl -A "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0" https://getfedora.org/
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