Citrix IE detection

Question

We have a website, which many users are accessing through Citrix. Certain things (namely video) drag down the Citrix server so much that I don't even want to try launching a video if the user is connecting from that.

Is there some way (on the web server end) of detecting if the browser that's connecting is being hosted by citrix? Everyone will be using IE 7 or 8 if that is relevant. I did a dump of all the request parameters and scanned through window.* and window.navigator.* but didn't seem to find anything.

Answer 1

You can't do this via the browser, but connecting from CITRIX should be from a known IP pool on the CITRIX-side, can you check the IP the user is connecting (to the web server) with against that list/pool/range?

Whatever's configured for CITRIX to hand out to it's users, use that list/pool/range for comparison...this will be a more assured/simpler way to do detection. I'm assuming here that you have access to this information, since it sounds like you're hosting both CITRIX and the web server.