Merge pull request github#263 from github/add-user-agent-example

Jessica Lord · Jessica Lord · commit 0e851a816bf5 · 2013-06-12T11:44:43.000-07:00
User-Agent Example
diff --git a/content/v3.md b/content/v3.md
@@ -334,10 +334,15 @@ higher rate limit for your OAuth application.
 
 ## User Agent Required
 
-All API requests MUST include a valid User Agent string. Requests with no User Agent
-string will be rejected. If you are hitting the API without authentication, we ask that
-you add some kind of identification to the UA header value. This is so we can contact
-you if there are problems.
+All API requests MUST include a valid `User-Agent` header. Requests with no `User-Agent`
+header will be rejected. We request that you use your GitHub username, or the name of your 
+application, for the `User-Agent` header value. This allows us to contact you if there are problems.
+
+Here's an example:
+
+<pre class="terminal">
+User-Agent: Awesome-Octocat-App
+</pre>
 
 ## Conditional requests
 
