Internet Browser Detection

[www]

How can I detect what browser type my users are using, currently with my asp
server variables I only detect Netscape and Mozilla as U, how can I get
specific information without having to use software that you must pay for?

thanx in advance
charles

[William Tasso]

www wrote:

How can I detect what browser type my users are using, currently with
my asp server variables I only detect Netscape and Mozilla as U, how
can I get specific information without having to use software that
you must pay for?

don't pay - the info is unreliable at best.

http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/

http://www.allmyfaqs.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?AnySizeDesign

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[Curt_C [MVP]]

even the software that you "pay" for is still just parsing the
Request.ServerVariables() items most likely. What have you tried already
that you only get "U" ?

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"www" <ch*****@paltrack.co.za> wrote in message
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How can I detect what browser type my users are using, currently with my asp server variables I only detect Netscape and Mozilla as U, how can I get
specific information without having to use software that you must pay for?

thanx in advance
charles

[Charles Treurnicht]

I've used request.ServerVariables("HTTP_User_Agent"), what must I use to
get a more accurate string than U.

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[Dave Anderson]

"www" wrote:

How can I detect what browser type my users are using,
currently with my asp server variables I only detect
Netscape and Mozilla as U, how can I get specific
information without having to use software that you
must pay for?

Why bother? If you haven't written your site to accommodate every browser
ever written and ever to be written, what does it matter?

It is far better (and by far less bothersome) to write to W3C standards than
to detect and attempt to accommodate browser versions.
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[Curt_C [MVP]]

what do you mean "U" ?
Please show and example....also, not all browsers will give you an header
that's standardized...

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"Charles Treurnicht" <ch*****@paltrack.co.za> wrote in message
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I've used request.ServerVariables("HTTP_User_Agent"), what must I use to
get a more accurate string than U.

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