User Agent String

[deanebarker]

To be polite, we need a custom user agent string with some indications of what this request is doing. People might accuse us of assholery, otherwise.

[sggottlieb]

I can see in urllib2 where we would set it. But what should it say? "We are all in your business snooping your tech?"

How about "Mozilla/1.22 (compatible; MSIE 2.0; Windows 3.1) - IM BACK!"?

To be more honest how about just "CM Field Guide"

Here is a good list of examples:

http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/useragentstring.php