Why IE shows "Mozilla" in User-Agent field of its request?

[Guest]

Connection Established..GET /test.htm HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR
1.1.4322
; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Alexa Toolbar)
Host: localhost
Connection: Keep-Alive

 

[Don Varnau]

Hi,
From
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/aboutuseragent.asp
or (shortened) http://snipurl.com/1bc0m
"For historical reasons, Internet Explorer identifies itself as a Mozilla
4.0 browser."
(There's additional info in that article.)

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]