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by cxr 1319 days ago
Odd response—especially the (perversely ironic!) dig in your first sentence. The blog post states:

> At Akamai, we use the User-Agent header at the edge and as part of many Akamai products for business logic

The post then goes on to describe several things that are expected to break (or would be breaking—if Akamai weren't taking steps on their end) since they rely on the value of client's User-Agent header, and it affects how they respond. It's definitely not just for being used at Akamai to help reproduce bugs in the same environments...