Tuesday, 1 August 2017

Browser ID/User Agent

I've been doing some stuff recently with browser ID strings, and find that
it is quite complicated!

There is stuff called Mozilla compatibility, platform, platform details,
specific enhancements etcetera! All very difficult to untangle!

But NetSurf (RISC OS) resolutely reports itself as:

NetSurf/3.7 (RISC OS)

which isn't terribly helpful/compatible with the likes of, for instance:

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; SAMSUNG SM-T550 Build/MMB29M)
AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SamsungBrowser/4.0
Chrome/44.0.2403.133 Safari/537.36

Observations, please!

John

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