A user agent is a computer program representing a person, for example, a browser in a Web context.
Besides a browser, a user agent could be a bot scraping webpages, a download manager, or another app accessing the Web. Along with each request they make to the server, browsers include a self-identifying user-agent HTTP header called a user agent (UA) string. This string often identifies the browser, its version number, and its host operating system.
A typical user agent string looks like this:
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0"
How to allow to block requests based on User Agent in Live streaming?
Please follow the steps,
- Login to the 5centsCDN control panel.
- Go to Live Streams.
- Select Push/Pull/Multi-bitrate Push/Scheduled playlist/Delayed stream.
- Click the Manage button of your stream name.
- On the redirected page, You can click User Agent under Security.
- Click the Enable button.
- Policy: select Allow or Block.
- User Agents: You can add the User Agent here(use *useragent* for wildcard match). You can also enable or disable Case Sensitive Match
- Click the Save button.
Please wait 15 mins to deploy the changes.
How to allow to block requests based on User Agent in Zones?
- Login to the 5centsCDN control panel.
- Go to Zones.
- Select HTTP Push/Pull or VoD Push/Pull.
- Click the Manage button on your zone
- On the redirected page, You can click User Agent under Security.
- Click the Enable button.
- Policy: select Allow or Block.
- User Agents: You can add the User Agent here(use *useragent* for wildcard match). You can also enable or disable Case Sensitive Match
- Click the Save button.