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Agent name delivery

This is a method by which different pages can be shown to a user on the same URL depending on what agent name is making the request. Mozilla at the start of an agent name will mean that a normal browser is searching, if a name such as Googlebot is used it shows that it is a search engine. However this is not a good way of cloaking as many searhc engines just disguise their spiders by calling them Mozilla agents.