hi, Don't rely entirely upon the user agent string. It will work only when the client computer connects directly with your server. If it comes through a proxy any of the following can happen
- the client machine gets a cached copy in the proxy cache. so it might get the right version intended for it - the proxy might send its own user agent like "mozilla (border manager/3.0) when a IE 5.0 browser might have made the actual request. In this case, the user agent detection logic will tell that the request is coming from a netscape browser! There are different variations of what these proxies can do! Regards, Nagarajan. -----Original Message----- From: A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification and reference [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rajinder Sandhu Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 8:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: browswer check <%@ import="java.io.*,java.util.*,java.lang.Object,java.text.Format" %> <% // using Java, determine if the browser is Netscape or MSIE boolean isNetscape = false; String userAgent = request.getHeader("User-Agent"); if ( userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("msie") ==-1 && userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("spoofer")==-1 ) { isNetscape = true; // browser is Netscape } else { isNetscape = false; // browser is NOT Netscape } %> Hope this helps. Cheers!! Raj -----Original Message----- From: Sami Saul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 12:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: browswer check Try request.getHeader("User-Agent") Regards, Sami Can anybody direct me to some code that will check browser version and type via jsp or tag? I don't particularly want to use javascript. =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com
