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Old Nov 4, 2014 | 4:32 pm
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Originally Posted by paulwuk
I believe KVSTool sends the following


Rather than the conventional web browser standard shown on that page linked above, which would be something like



If this is indeed the case (and please feel free to provide the actual string you use), surely the tool is fraudulently (done to trick someone for the purpose of getting something valuable) pretending to be a different web browser? It seems the company that provides the KVSTool web browser claims it's a special custom web browser, and it isn't MSIE 6.

If KVSTool isn't trying to hide itself from the servers your clients are using, why wouldn't it identify itself using the standard HTTP UserAgent string?
To be fair, according to Fiddler, I do believe KVS is sending a KVS specific user agent when I used it to monitor traffic to British Airways.
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