Customizing website monitor User-Agent
The User-Agent (UA) string is an HTTP header that is intended to identify the software being used to access a website. This header tells the server what the visiting device, what browser, or even what kind of bot it is. You may find that certain websites respond differently or even block your website depending on the User-Agent header and you may wish to override the default User-Agent that StatusGator uses.
To add a UA string to your User-Agent header for website monitoring on StatusGator, follow these steps:
1. Click on three dots next to your website monitor to configure it.
2. Switch over to the Settings tab and scroll all the way down.
3. In the HTTP Headers section, input the header name (can be User-Agent in this case) and the header value (can be Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 13; SM-S901B) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/112.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36, which is going to identify your requests as if they were coming from a Samsung Galaxy S22 5G phone).
4. Once done, hit Save, that's it.
Here are some example User-Agent strings but you can use any string you choose:
Google Chrome on Windows:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/116.0.5845.110 Safari/537.36
Mozilla Firefox on macOS:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 13_4_1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/118.0
Safari on iPhone (iOS 17):
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1
Microsoft Edge on Windows:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/116.0.5845.110 Safari/537.36 Edg/116.0.1938.62
Android WebView:
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 13; Pixel 6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/116.0.5845.110 Mobile Safari/537.36