# Http request - set user agent

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/http-request-set-user-agent/3269>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [19 September 2018 12:24 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/http-request-set-user-agent/3269 "2018-09-19T12:24:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![petez69](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5e9695/32.png) [@petez69](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/petez69)\
**Post date:** [19 September 2018 12:24 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/http-request-set-user-agent/3269/1 "2018-09-19T12:24:57Z")

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Hi Folks

I'd like to be able to set the http request user agent as:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/68.0.3440.106 Safari/537.36

I realise I need a function that injects this into the request, just not sure how to set this up ?

A little guidance please 🙂  
Thankyou..Pete

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**Author:** ![ukmoose](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/ukmoose/32/13_2.png) [@ukmoose](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ukmoose)\
**Post date:** [19 September 2018 12:34 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/http-request-set-user-agent/3269/2 "2018-09-19T12:34:27Z")

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This page shows you how to set a request header [https://cookbook.nodered.org/http/set-request-header](https://cookbook.nodered.org/http/set-request-header)

So try setting `User-Agent` and see if it works

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**Author:** ![petez69](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5e9695/32.png) [@petez69](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/petez69)\
**Post date:** [19 September 2018 13:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/http-request-set-user-agent/3269/3 "2018-09-19T13:59:19Z")

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ukmoose, thankyou...I set an arbitrary string and was able to get to the website 🙂 With the default it gave me "unauthorised" 🙂  
Cheers