user-agent

Hey Everyone, I was wondering what methods are standard within the industry to do browser detection in Rails? Is there a gem, library or sample code somewhere that can help determine the browser and apply a class or id to the body element of the (X)HTML? Thanks, I'm just wondering what everyone uses and whether there is accepted method of doing this? I know that we can get the user.agent and parse that string, but I'm not sure if that is that is an acceptable way to do browser detection. Also, I'm not trying to debate feature detection here, I've read multiple answers for that on StackOverflow

Is there a way to detect mobile devices using Javascript? Also, I researched that there are such an XML which contains user-agents that could help to identify the mobile handsets. You probably have a normal site and you want to redirect to a mobile site if certain conditions are met, like the screen is very small, or the content is zoomed out to fit on a large "virtual" screen in a small physical space. So, why not check for those conditions instead of testing a zillion UA strings. Try something like this: For the UA to report the screen's physical pixel size, this tag must be present in the

I want to open a url using urllib.request.urlopen('someurl') : with urllib.request.urlopen('someurl') as url: b = url.read() I keep getting the following error: urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden I understand the error to be due to the site not letting python access it, to stop bots wasting their network resources- which is understandable. I went searching and found that you need to change the user agent for urllib. However all the guides and solutions I have found for this issue as to how to change the user agent have been with urllib2, and I am using python 3 so all the

We've got an alternate version of out website ready for mobile devices. The content we serve is different and it works well. What is the best way to detect which version to serve. We don't have a list of all mobile devices so to use the user-agent header is tricky as we may miss something. We thought about useing device screen width - but what happens if the mobile device doesnt support javascript. How do we sniff this ? You could use a device description database (such as WURFL ) which will recognise the client device from the request headers. You can then query that database to decide if the

What is the iOS 5.0 user agent string? Here is the iOS 4.0 user agent: What is the iPhone 4 user-agent? iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A334 Safari/7534.48.3 iPad: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 5_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A334 Safari/7534.48.3 This site seems to keep a complete list that's still maintained iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad from iOS 2.0 - 5.1.1 (to date). You do need to assemble the full user-agent string out of the information listed in the page's

I try to fetch a Wikipedia article with Python's urllib: f = urllib.urlopen("http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert_Einstein&printable=yes") s = f.read() f.close() However instead of the html page I get the following response: Error - Wikimedia Foundation: Request: GET http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert_Einstein&printable=yes, from 192.35.17.11 via knsq1.knams.wikimedia.org (squid/2.6.STABLE21) to () Error: ERR_ACCESS_DENIED, errno [No Error] at Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:09:08 GMT Wikipedia seems to block request which are not from a standard browser. Anybody know how to work