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Sec-CH-UA-Bitness header

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The HTTP Sec-CH-UA-Bitness request header is a user agent client hint which provides the “bitness” of the user-agent’s underlying CPU architecture. This is the size in bits of an integer or memory address—typically 64 or 32 bits.

This might be used by a server, for example, to select and offer the correct binary format of an executable for a user to download.

Header type [Request header](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Request%20header), Client hint
[Forbidden request header](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Forbidden%20request%20header) Yes (Sec- prefix)

Syntax

Sec-CH-UA-Bitness: <bitness>

Directives

  • <bitness>
    • : A string indicating the underlying platform architecture bitness, such as: "64", "32".

Examples

Using Sec-CH-UA-Bitness

A server requests the Sec-CH-UA-Bitness header by including Accept-CH in a response to any request from the client, using the name of the desired header as a token:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Accept-CH: Sec-CH-UA-Bitness

The client may choose to provide the hint, and add the Sec-CH-UA-Bitness header to subsequent requests. For example, on a Windows based 64-bit computer, the client might add the header as shown:

GET /my/page HTTP/1.1
Host: example.site

Sec-CH-UA: " Not A;Brand";v="99", "Chromium";v="96", "Google Chrome";v="96"
Sec-CH-UA-Mobile: ?0
Sec-CH-UA-Platform: "Windows"
Sec-CH-UA-Bitness: "64"

Specifications

SpecificationsStandards references are available on the canonical MDN page.

Browser compatibility

Browser compatibilityCompatibility data is available on the canonical MDN page.

See also