HttpWebRequest.UserAgent : What does it do

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Published on 2010-06-16T21:28:37Z Indexed on 2010/06/16 21:32 UTC
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I read this MSDN like about it and ran its example. when I change the uSerAgnet to something like "blah", the output is wrong but when I use the same thing that is in the example of even when I comment out the line of code that is setting the UserASgent, the output is correct.

what is UserAgent at all ? when should I set it ? How to know to what value should I set it ?

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