<docbook><section><title>VirtConfigureUserAgentIdentitybySponger</title><para> </para>
<title>Configuring User Agent Identity used by Sponger</title>Configuring User Agent Identity used by Sponger
<bridgehead class="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml:h2">What?</bridgehead>
 How to configure the User Agent Identity used by a Virtuoso Sponger instance.<bridgehead class="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml:h2">Why?</bridgehead>
<para>Increasingly, for a variety of reasons, Web sites and Data Spaces will constrain access to resources (documents) based on the identity of a user agent.
 This feature enables you control how your instance of the Virtuoso Sponger is identified, distinct from other instances.</para>
<bridgehead class="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml:h2">How?</bridgehead>
<para>In order to configure the HTTP client&#39;s user agent string, one should set the <ulink url="ClientIdString">ClientIdString</ulink> parameter in the Virtuoso INI file:</para>
<programlisting>...
[HTTPServer] 
ClientIdString = xx 
...
</programlisting><bridgehead class="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml:h2">Related</bridgehead>
 <itemizedlist mark="bullet" spacing="compact"><listitem><ulink url="VirtSponger">Learn about the Virtuoso RDFization Middleware called the &quot;Sponger&quot;</ulink> </listitem>
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