Title: Proper User Agent String for Checker
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Proper User Agent String for Checker

 *  [Surfer92](https://wordpress.org/support/users/surfer92/)
 * (@surfer92)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proper-user-agent-string-for-checker/)
 * Dear developer,
 * It would be really great if you could implement the idea described at [https://whiteshadow.uservoice.com/forums/58400-broken-link-checker/suggestions/1634769-set-a-propper-useragent-for-blc](https://whiteshadow.uservoice.com/forums/58400-broken-link-checker/suggestions/1634769-set-a-propper-useragent-for-blc).
   
   Wanted to post it, too, but because it’s already existing, I just link to it.
   😉
 * Addition to the idea:
    What about an option to set your own user agent string?
   Then you could do something like
    - no custom uas? => Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; BLC/Broken Link Checker; [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/broken-link-checker/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/broken-link-checker/))
    - custom uas? => use this
 * Best regards, Chris
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/)

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 *  [benpro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benpro/)
 * (@benpro)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proper-user-agent-string-for-checker/#post-4450784)
 * I agree. At least you can use same system as WP:
 * `'WordPress/' . $wp_version . '; ' . home_url()`
 *  Thread Starter [Surfer92](https://wordpress.org/support/users/surfer92/)
 * (@surfer92)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proper-user-agent-string-for-checker/#post-4450785)
 * +1
    Sounds good, too. 🙂

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