DotNet Get User Operating System (HTTP_USER_AGENT)

Question

I'm looking at building an exhaustive function that returns a friendly name for the Users Operating System.

I think I have most of the Windows stuff down, but I'm not sure about Linux, OSX, and others.

Does anyone know where I can find an exhaustive list of HTTP_USER_AGENT's

'Gets the users operating system
Public Shared Function GetUserOS() As String

    Dim strAgent As String = HttpContext.Current.Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_USER_AGENT")
    'Windows OS's
    If InStr(strAgent, "Windows NT 6.1") Then : Return "Windows 7"
    ElseIf InStr(strAgent, "Windows NT 6.0") Then : Return "Windows Vista"
    ElseIf InStr(strAgent, "Windows NT 5.2") Then : Return "Windows Server 2003"
    ElseIf InStr(strAgent, "Windows NT 5.1") Then : Return "Windows XP"
    ElseIf InStr(strAgent, "Windows NT 5.0") Then : Return "Windows 2000"
    ElseIf InStr(strAgent, "Windows 98") Then : Return "Windows 98"
    ElseIf InStr(strAgent, "Windows 95") Then : Return "Windows 95"

        'Mac OS's
    ElseIf InStr(strAgent, "Mac OS X") Then : Return "Mac OS X"

        'Linux OS's
    ElseIf InStr(strAgent, "Linux") Then : Return "Linux"

    Else : Return "Unknown"
    End If


End Function 'GetUserOS

I basically want to return better results for Mac OS and Linux OS's. It's better in my opinion to say OSX Snow Leopard or OSX Tiger rather than just Mac OS X

Answer 1

Here you go.