Web Scraping Tutorial with Scrapy and Python for Beginners - What Are User Agents?

The video tutorial explains the interaction between clients and servers in web communication. It describes how a client sends a request to a server, which responds with HTML data. The role of the browser as a user agent is highlighted, showing how it manages requests and responses. Additionally, the tutorial covers the information sent by user agents, such as browser and system details, to help servers identify the source of requests.

Explain the process of how a request is sent from the client to the server.

What is a user agent and what role does it play in web communication?