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How to identify scanner requests through the user-agent header?
How to identify scanner requests through the user-agent header?

Identify HTTP requests from Probely through the user-agent header.

Jaime Vasconcelos avatar
Written by Jaime Vasconcelos
Updated over a week ago

When running scans, you can use the information in the user-agent header to identify HTTP requests from Probely.

Here is an example of a user-agent header:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; +https://probely.com/sos) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 ProbelySPDR/0.2.0

If you notice, there is a specific string in the header: https://probely.com/sos.

Use it to identify Probely requests and do not rely on any other information you find in the header for that effect.

Another alternative to identify Probely requests is through their IP address.

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