The public standards that are used for extended user agent parsing can contain generic values for user agents.

For example, if a user agent string of iPhone 10 is detected in the capture stream and there is no exact match in the public standard, a generic user agent string (iPhone) can be inserted, if the public standard contains a generic entry.

• BrowsCap.csv - For fixed user agents, use of generics is automatically enabled and cannot be configured.
• WURFL.csv - For mobile user agents, use of generics is enabled by default when the public standard is converted for use in Tealeaf.

Enabling generics is useful for capturing in some form new versions of user agents that are not yet in the public standards. When the public standards are updated, the entries for these user agents match on the public standard without configuration changes.