user-agent

How do you parse your user agent strings? I'm looking to get: Browser Browser Version OS OS Version from a user agent string. My app is written in perl and was previously using HTTP::BrowserDetect . It's a bit dated and is no longer maintained. (Edit: it's since been updated.) I'm in no way tied to using perl for the actual lookup. I've come to the conclusion that automagic parsing is a lost cause. I was thinking of writing a crud type app to show me a list of unclassified UA's and manually keep them up to date. Does such an resource already exist that I can tap into? It would be awesome if I

I have a web api http://something.com/api and I want to use GET to get the response body. This is my command: curl "http://something.com/api" Of course, it fails and gives an error message. When I use Chrome and input the above url, everythings correct. However I do the same things with Firefox, the url gives me the same error message. I try to repeat the action with Chrome extension DHC, the request gives correct response again. After some searching, I believe that the curl option --user-agent makes a difference. What is the correct way to set the user agent to Chrome? Or this is not the

Just like in the title. I got two files: one is javascript file and one is css file. And if user-agent is an iPad I want to load those files - but only when user-agent is iPad . So below two lines are only loaded when user-agent is an iPad. how can i achieve that <link rel="stylesheet" href="/c/dropkick.css" type="text/css"/> <script src="/s/jquery.dropkick-1.0.0.js" type="text/javascript"></script> if (navigator.userAgent.match(/iPad/i) != null){ // may need changing? var js = document.createElement('script'); js.type = "text/javascript"; js.src = "/s/jquery.dropkick-1.0.0.js"; var css =

I have a project to send some email to end clients. My client need to know what exactly "Email Client" they use to read the mail. I know a hidden can get the open event and even the user agent they use, so by parsing user agent i can get most email clients info. But it's hard to detect some popular web mail clients like "Gmail", "Hotmail" and "Yahoo mail". Because user agent return is only the browser user agent string. Edit: i think i need a result more like this: here You will not be able to perfectly detect the e-mail client your users are using. In E-Mail headers some programs choose to

So how can I check using codeigniter if the client is curl, and then return something different for it? You can fake the user-agent when using cURL, so it's pointless depending on the user-agent sent when you KNOW it's a cURL request. For example: I recently wrote an app which gets the pagerank of a url from google. Now Google doesn't like this, so it allows only a certain user agent to access its pagerank servers. Solution? Spoof the user-agent using cURL and Google will be none the wiser. Moral of the story: cURL user agents are JUST NOT reliable. If you still want to do this, then you

I read this MSDN like about it and ran its example. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.httpwebrequest.useragent.aspx when I change the uSerAgnet to something like "blah", the output is wrong but when I use the same thing that is in the example of even when I comment out the line of code that is setting the UserASgent, the output is correct. what is UserAgent at all ? when should I set it ? How to know to what value should I set it ? thanks The User Agent is used to identify the client and operating system etc. It's most commonly used in browsers. You can used the User Agent to

Is it possible to change Android's default MediaPlayer User-Agent string? If so, how? String referer="Referer: http://www.google.com/\r\n", useragent="USER-AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/43.0.2357.134 Safari/537.36\r\n"; Map<String,String>mhead; VideoView vp; void prepareHeader(){ mhead=new HashMap<String,String>(); if(android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >20){ //if 5.X or higher, Fix User-Agent be force set by system mhead.put(referer.split(": ")[0],referer.split(": ")[1]); mhead.put(useragent.split(": ")[0],useragent.split(": ")[1]);//

I have a web page that when viewed from an iOS device displays slightly different content. To detect the device in question the site looks for iPad; , iPod; , or iPhone; in the user agent string. This works perfectly on Safari on all iOS devices. Testing with Chrome for iOS it works on iPhone and iPad 1, but not iPad 3. The web site is getting the following (unexpected) user-agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_3) AppleWebKit/534.53.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.3 Safari/534.53.10 This seems to be related to the "request desktop site" option in the chrome menu (what

I'm trying to figure out the visitor's OS is either a Windows, Mac or Linux using PHP(I don't need the version, distro info.. etc). There's several methods out there however they look a bit too complicated for this simple requirement. Are there any simple ways that could provide this sort of information yet still being quite reliable? Thanks in advance. For an easy solution have a look here . The user-agent header might reveal some OS information, but i wouldn't count on that. For your use case i would do an ajax call using javascript from the client side to inform your server of the client's