How to detect Browser type in Django ?

Question

How can i detect which browser type the client is using. I have a problem where i have to ask people to use different browser (Firefox) instead of IE. How can i get this information.

I know http request has this information (Header). How will i get the navigator.appName from the view.py in the Django framework ?

Answer 1

You can look into the 'user agent string' and parse out the values.

Here's the relevant docs, specifically on (HTTP_USER_AGENT):

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/request-response/#django.http.HttpRequest.META

Answer 2

You can extract that information from the request object like so:

request.META['HTTP_USER_AGENT']