Check Browser Headers
Your Browser Information
| Header | Value | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| IP Address | 38.107.191.115 (38.107.191.115). Locate this IP | Your IP address tells a website where to send the response to your requests for pages and files Note: IP address is a not a browser header |
| Browser Request | GET /online-tools/check-browser-headers from andylangton.co.uk | The request (for this page) that produced the headers. The is composed of the request method (usually GET or POST), the host (andylangton.co.uk) and the requested URI (/online-tools/check-browser-headers). |
| User Agent | CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/b ot.html) probably Unknown version Unknown running on Unknown | Your web browser identifies itself in order that websites can display content that works with your software |
| Accepted Language(s) | en-us,en;q=0.5 | By telling websites which languages you understand, they have the opportunity to provide you content in that language |
| Accepted media types | text/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 | Your browser only understands a limited range of different files, and sending this header helps sites know which file types to offer you |
| Accepted encoding | gzip | Some browsers support encoding that can allow for features like compressed content that speed up the browsing experience |
| Remote port | 56539 | Your browser typically connects to port 80 on web servers to request data, and supplies a (random) local port to receive the data |
| Accepted Character Set(s) | ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 | The character sets your browser can support determine what characters in webpages you will be able to view correctly. In addition, some languages require a unique character set (e.g. Traditional Chinese) |
| Connection Type | close () | Your web browser is most likely configured to use a persistent connection to web servers you connect to (this is intended to make browsing faster). |
| Cache Control | no-cache | Your browser uses caching to speed up internet browsing |
What this means
This information should not cause you as much concern as some 'security' sources make out. It's there for compatibility (so that servers know how best to show a website) and to ensure you are able to browse the web properly. This information does not represent a security risk (unless your computer has security problems, that is...).
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Page last (manually) updated: December 23, 2009.
