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setUserAgent

scrapeableFile.setUserAgent( String userAgent ) (professional and enterprise editions only)
Description
In certain rare cases it may be desirable to explicitly set the "User-Agent" header screen-scraper will send for a given HTTP request. That is, screen-scraper will identify itself as if it were a specific web browser. If unspecified, the user agent "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)" will be used. Note that this method must be invoked before the file is scraped.
Example
// Causes screen-scraper to identify itself as Firefox
// running on Linux.
scrapeableFile.setUserAgent( "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826" );