You may have set up specific actions or redirects based on the User-Agent. To impersonate a browser, you can use this approach:
curl -A “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.01; Windows NT 5.0)” http://www.mytechforum.com
To see the Apache code, you can use the -I flag like this:
curl -A “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.01; Windows NT 5.0)” http://www.mytechforum.com -I
