Q: Setting User-Agent Field?

[1996]. Are we to assume that this was in relation to early work on what became google? Was the GoogleBot originally written in Java? It could have been early research in relation to that, or it could have been some unrelated project Larry Page was working on for all we know.

Btw. this[0] seems to be how Java later made it possible to set the User-Agent header, but it still includes the http.agent system property.

[0]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2529682/setting-user-agen...