Comments on: What’s in a User-Agent String?

By: weatherangel (Ilene)

weatherangel (Ilene) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:06:14 +0000

The answer to the dumbest question gave me the result with details I was unsure of. http://tinyurl.com/657yes – user agent strings defined

By: fedmich

fedmich — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:38:40 +0000

Thanks man, exactly what I need now for my current freelance work

By: No, They Don’t Read | K-Squared Ramblings

No, They Don’t Read | K-Squared Ramblings — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:25:29 +0000

[...] Ask unrelated tech support questions on a blog post because they used the wrong search terms for their problem. [...]

By: sbt

sbt — Mon, 07 May 2007 09:36:02 +0000

hmmm april 2006.

“changing the user agent string… does anybody know how to achieve this in IE”

proxomitron (you choose from among various ua filters)

for ie only, search fiddler tool

By: udi

udi — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:21:02 +0000

it would be good to see some standard web development happening that is browser independent. to this end, changing the user agent string to something generic would be useful. does anybody know how to achieve this in IE. i already have an extention for firefox.

By: Abu

Abu — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 08:02:15 +0000

Kelson: This may be slightly off the subject of your blog, but your opinion would be appreciated even if only breif. I am currently developing a program which identifies user agents, user agent versions, operating sytems and operating systems versions using regular expressions and php. I have a list of about 13,500 sample user agent strings which I have tested it against with about 99% accuracy. I have so far built it to detect the main browser types and operating systems only, but adding others is easy. I have built as part of my own web site program which I intend to market as a package. But I am wondering if you think my browser detection program would be a viable product within itself to market?
Anyone?

By: Kelson

Kelson — Mon, 30 May 2005 17:24:50 +0000

Les: This is not a tech support forum, it’s a post on my personal blog describing how to identify web browsers based on the UA string they send to the server.

By: les griffiths

les griffiths — Mon, 30 May 2005 12:13:15 +0000

Full Browser Version is:mozilla/4.0 (compatible; msie 6.0; windows nt 5.1; sv1; .net clr 1.1.4322)Media Player Version is:unknown click here to test the reload script

this is what I am getting cant play some music sites on Ntl Broadband plus can you suggest something

By: Simple Browser Categorization | K-Squared Ramblings

Simple Browser Categorization | K-Squared Ramblings — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 06:08:31 +0000

[...] , crawler, or compatible — filter out robots and anything unknown. Mozilla — just about everyone uses Mozilla in their UA string these day [...]

By: Trusted Site, Untrusted Browser | K-Squared Ramblings

Trusted Site, Untrusted Browser | K-Squared Ramblings — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 20:30:16 +0000

[...] ies and even history. One of the first things I always check with a new browser is how it identifies itself, which in this case is as Firefox 0.9.6. (P [...]

By: Kelson

Kelson — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 18:29:13 +0000

I found one today that looks like Longhorn: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SV2; .NET CLR 2.0.1078

* It calls itself Mozilla/5.0, catching up to the competition.
* It does indeed consider itself to be NT 6.0.
* It is apparently Security Version 2.
* Apparently betas of IE 7 exist somewhere.

I also found that some installations of Opera will use the public Windows version (Windows XP) instead of the technical name (Windows NT 5.1). Whenever I’ve tested it, it’s followed the same pattern as IE. Either that or there’s a UA spoofer out there that isn’t quite accurate.

By: Kelson

Kelson — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 07:52:26 +0000

Domi: I’m sorry, this is not a tech support forum. It is a post on my personal weblog dealing with how to identify web browsers. I can’t debug your computer remotely, and if I could, this wouldn’t be the place to do it.

If you have a problem with Opera, go to the Opera support forums. If you have a problem with Amazon, go to Amazon’s support page. They are more likely than I am to be able to identify your specific problem.

By: Domi

Domi — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 07:04:37 +0000

Hey Kelson, i am sorry that i insist with the “problem” but look what i got again when i was surfing the net(i was on http://www.amazon.com) again:
Browser Bug?
Attention: There appears to be a bug in the web browser you are currently using. Here are some ways to get around the problem:
To return to the page you were previously on: –click the BACK button on your browser’s navigation bar until you reach the desired page.
To checkout –click on the shopping cart icon at the top of the page and proceed through the checkout process using the standard server (instead of the secure server). You can phone or fax the credit card information to us.
Your Web browser is Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.54 [en].
Go to home page now.

this happened befor i was using 7.54 and now after….what do u think?

By: mark

mark — Sun, 26 Sep 2004 13:10:08 +0000

i’ll make sure my free version will search for renderers instead of browsers. i had enough UA’s that do display the renderer (mostly gecko) but not the browsername.

tricky stuff when not all parties follow an exactly defined standard.

By: Kelson

Kelson — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 19:09:53 +0000

As far as I know, Opera’s home page doesn’t have any pop-ups. They’re probably being generated by a piece of adware on your computer.

Just remember: never install something advertised in a pop-up!

Anyway, I’m not the person to ask about how to clean out your computer. I know that recent versions of Norton Antivirus will detect adware. I don’t know if Kaspersky will do the same. Of course, the most sure-fire way to clean it is to back up your files, reformat your hard drive, and reinstall Windows.