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I'm working on a website and need to know whether the user is running Mac OSX or not. How can I do this? Ideally, my code would look something like:

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  1. if (using osx) {
  2.   // make slight change
  3. }
Thanks in advance.
Jun 13 '08 #1
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Curtis Rutland
3,256 Expert 2GB
You can get the User Agent string and parse it:
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  1. string agent = Request.UserAgent;
  2.  
On my Mac (Firefox 3RC3), it returns:
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  1.    Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061004 Firefox/3.0 
  2.  
On my windows machine (IE 7) it returns:
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  1. Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR  2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR  3.5.21022) 
  2.  
I think that you can use .Contains("OS X") on the user agent string to see if it is OSX.
Jun 13 '08 #2
daChf
8
That worked. Thanks a lot!
Jun 13 '08 #3

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