Set User-Agent in HTTP request

Question

Is it possible to set the user-agent in an HTTP request? I tried the following:

$http({
        method: 'GET',
        url: 'http://rest-service.guides.spring.io/greeting',
        headers: {
            'User-Agent' : 'app/2.0 (Android 4.3) sec=some_key'
        }

     })

But my browser says:

Refused to set unsafe header "User-Agent"

I don't think you can do this. You are making an ajax request through the browser which will enforce its own security policies on it. — deitch, Nov 24 '14 at 14:16
In other words, it depends on the browser, but in general, no. @1101 why do you want to do this? — deitch, Nov 24 '14 at 14:20

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 24 '14 at 15:11

There is a way in backend specific solution.

Call your own rest service with default header parameters and then in your rest service call another rest service which is you want to call , with custom User-Agent header( Restception :) ). Then you can get your data from your own rest service.

hon2a points the link, that has similar problem. XMLHttpRequest Termination

Set User-Agent in HTTP request

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