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Sec-CH-UA-WoW64 header

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The HTTP Sec-CH-UA-WoW64 request header is a user agent client hint indicating if a 32-bit user-agent application is running on a 64-bit Windows machine.

WoW64 was commonly used to know which NPAPI plugin installer should be offered for download. This client hint header is used for backwards compatibility considerations, to provide a one-to-one mapping from the user-agent string of certain browsers to UA client hints.

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-WoW64: <boolean>

Directives

  • <boolean>
    • : ?1 indicates that the user agent’s binary is running in 32-bit mode on 64-bit Windows (true), while ?0 means that it is not (false).

Examples

Using Sec-CH-UA-WoW64

A server requests the Sec-CH-UA-WoW64 header by including the 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-WoW64

The client may choose to provide the hint, and add the Sec-CH-UA-WoW64 header to subsequent requests. Adding Sec-CH-UA-WoW64: ?1 means the user agent’s binary is running in 32-bit mode on 64-bit Windows:

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

Sec-CH-UA-WoW64: ?1
Sec-CH-UA-Platform: "Windows"
Sec-CH-UA-Form-Factors: "Desktop"

Specifications

SpecificationsStandards references are available on the canonical MDN page.

Browser compatibility

Browser compatibilityCompatibility data is available on the canonical MDN page.

See also