The x-customer-user-agent HTTP header — agent & bot identity, declared by 30 providers in the API Evangelist catalog.
x-customer-user-agent
Agent & Bot Identity de facto — unregistered request
A reference entry. The registry facts and catalog measurements below are complete; the written guidance for this header has not been authored yet.
x-customer-user-agent is agent & bot identity — Headers by which an automated caller identifies itself, and by which a server decides what to serve it. The newest category, and the one with the least settled vocabulary.
The registry
Not registered with IANA. It is a de facto or vendor field — real, widely used, and governed by nothing but convention.
In the catalog
Declared by 30 providers across 234 published specification files in the API Evangelist catalog, where it appears as a request header — sent by the client.
Governed by these rules
Machine-enforceable governance rules from rules.apievangelist.com that apply to this header when it appears in an OpenAPI.
OpenAPI Components Headers Error error
Utilizing the headers object in the centralized OpenAPI components library helps make headers reusable across API requests and responses
Guidance: Rate Limits →OpenAPI Components Headers Info info
Utilizing the headers object in the centralized OpenAPI components library helps make headers reusable across API requests and responses
Guidance: Rate Limits →OpenAPI Headers Hyphenated Pascal Case error
HTTP headers should follow Hyphenated-Pascal-Case naming convention for consistency and readability, such as Content-Type, X-Request-Id, or Accept-Language.
Guidance: Naming →