user-agent

How to block some of http user agent using php

Hi.. there have a way to block some of user agent via php script? Example on mod_security SecFilterSelective HTTP_USER_AGENT "Agent Name 1" SecFilterSelective HTTP_USER_AGENT "Agent Name 2" SecFilterSelective HTTP_USER_AGENT "Agent Name 3" Also we can block them using htaccess or robots.txt by example but I want in php. Any example co...

Safari's user agent: which WebKit version to trust?

I'm trying to extract not just the browser and its version number but also the rendering engine and its version number from common user-agent strings. Most browsers report this just fine, e.g.: "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0)" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.12) Gecko/200907061...

Blackberry User Agent

I'm hitting a mobile site from a new Blackberry and the user agent is: mozilla/5.0 (windows, u; windows nt).... Anyone else seen this? On older phones it was blackberry8130... ...

HTML Parsing Error

I can't find out what the problem is, and why I keep receiving this error in Internet Explorer 8, as it's the only error that I am receiving. Any thoughts as to what it means, or a simple solution? I haven't noticed any problems with my code though, it's just the message that bugs me. Webpage error details. User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (...

HttpURLConnection in android doesn't send correct User-Agent header

Hello, I have found an issue. I have a server that uses User Agent header to identify the device that is connecting to it. But when i connect to the server using HttpURLConnection i get no User Agent header, but when i connect with the browser it sends the correct User Agent. For testing i am using an echo server that replies with the ...

Is there an online user agent database?

How do you parse your user agent strings? I'm looking to get: Browser Browser Version OS OS Version from a user agent string. My app is written in perl and was previously using HTTP::BrowserDetect. It's a bit dated and is no longer maintained. I'm in no way tied to using perl for the actual lookup. I've come to the conclusion that a...

Looking for a Java User Agent String Parser

Does anyone know of a great library in java for parsing user agent strings? We have written a custom one, but this seems like a common problem for many people. I would guess there is a good library available somewhere. For example, the user agent string... "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.0 (KHTML, like...

HTML and CSS in URLs causing 404 errors (User Agent = Trident/4.0)

I've been getting some 404s with snippets of code (CSS, HTML and JavaScript) in the URL. As best as I can tell the user is progressing through the site just fine during their session - its an ecommerce site and the effected users are putting stuff in their basket and checking out OK etc. On certain pages I'm see 404 errors adjacent to ...

Change user agent in Eclipse 3.5 for new software installations

How can the user-agent be changed in Eclipse 3.5? I tried adding the property -Dhttp.agent=my user agent to the eclipse.ini file, but using WireShark I can see that the user agent is still Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.1. I need to change this so that I can get through the company's filter to download plug-ins and updates. Here is my ecli...

Alternative to User-Agent in .jsp

Sometimes in my .jsp i use User-Agent in order to define what .css class or attribute to use dependently upon client's browser. example: <c:set var="browser" value="${header['User-Agent']}" scope="session"/> <c:if test="${(fn:contains(browser,'Safari'))||(fn:contains(browser,'Chrome'))}"> <c:set var="cellClass" va...

Can Zend_Soap_Client set custom user-agent?

I have Zend_Soap_Server. It should be tested. One issue - unit testing and development modes should work with different databases. It can be done via .htaccess: SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent (.*) APPLICATION_ENV=development SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent testing APPLICATION_ENV=testing It would work fine for me, I use Zend_Soap_Client as is fo...

How can the user-agent be changed in Maven?

How can I change the user-agent in Maven? I need to be able to change this to get through the company firewall. I am using version 2.2.1 and I noticed an improvement in the 2.0.10 release notes: [MNG-3652] - set a user agent for Maven HTTP requests. ...

Check for internet explorer. PHP vs. ie conditional comments?

So I've decided to break up my CSS into an ie6-and-ie7-only file. I will have CSS rules in this file which target ie6 and ie7 only, such as: div { *color: red; /* target ie7 and below */ _color: green; /* target ie6 and below */ } If possible, I prefer to use PHP with $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] to detect the browser, rather t...

Getting "undefined method `include?'" for request.user_agent

I've got this line of code: if request.user_agent.include?("iPhone") then But I'm occasionally getting this error: "undefined method `include?' for nil:NilClass" When checking logs on the error, there isn't a "HTTP_USER_AGENT" for the user that is getting the error. So how can I fix that line so it doesn't throw an error if there ...

Detect 64-bit or 32-bit Windows from User Agent or Javascript?

I want to offer the right version of a download. The versions I have are: 32-bit Windows 64-bit Windows Linux Detecting Linux using the User Agent field is easy; but is it possible to reliably figure out if Windows is 32-bit or 64-bit? Users might be using weird browsers - IE and Firefox are common, and we probably have an Opera us...

Is there a workaround to IE7's user agent being defaulted after installing .Net Framework 3.5 SP1?

I have verified that after installing the .Net Framework 3.5 SP1, when the User Agent string exceeds a certain number of characters, the user agent is defaulted to 'userAgent string:Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0)'. I've verified this behavior on several machines but can't seem to find a suitable workaround. This is preventing some Si...

What does default CSS's browsers depend on ?

Hi (please excuse me for my ugly english ;-) ) Do you know if the default CSS of any user agent ... : depends on its release number ? depends on its layout engine ? depends on the release number of its layout engine ? depends on the OS ? depends on the OS release number ? If yes (for any choice), have you any example do demonstrate ...

MDDR in user agent string

What do MDDR means in a user agent string? Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; MDDR; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; OfficeLiveConnector.1.4; OfficeLivePatch.1.3) ...

How to set User-Agent in python-twitter ?

Hi, i'm writing a small script to tweet messages from the monitoring systems. The only issue i ran into so far is that i can't set the User-Agent correctly, all tweets show up as "from API" which ain't a huge deal but i wonder what I'm doing wrong. An example to reproduce this behavior: import sys import twitter USERNAME="twitteruser...

How do websites find out which browser is visiting them

How do websites find out which browser is visiting them how i can do this Are you give answer for asp.net c# ...