[Zope] Re: IE 5x lies about itself

[Michael Lewis]

On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 04:35, Josef Meile wrote:
> --- In zope@yahoogroups.com, David Bear <David.Bear@a...> wrote:
>  > I've been trying to conceptualize how I could select content
>  > FORMATTING based on the browser that connects.  My thought was to use
>  > the request.HTTP_USER_AGENT and see about parsing and selecting there.
>  >
>  > The ugly thing is that IE starts out saying its mozilla.  here's the
>  > results of various UA strings.
>  >
>  >
>  > IE 5.5
>  > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; T312461)

<dtml-if "_.string.find(HTTP_USER_AGENT, 'MSIE 5') >= 0">

>  >
>  > IE 6.0
>  > Mozilla/4.0 (copmatible; MSIE 6.0, Windows NT 5.0)

> <dtml-if "_.string.find(HTTP_USER_AGENT, 'MSIE 6') >= 0">

>  >
>  > Netscape 4.7
>  > Mozilla/4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U)

> <dtml-if "_.string.find(HTTP_USER_AGENT, 'Mozilla/4.7') >= 0">

>  >
>  > Real Mozilla
>  > Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721

<dtml-if "_.string.find(HTTP_USER_AGENT, 'Mozilla/5' and 'Gecko') >= 0">


If you want to test for Linux, Unix, etc., 

<dtml-if "_.string.find(HTTP_USER_AGENT, 'Mozilla/5' and 'Gecko' and
'Linux') >= 0">

It helps checking for MSIE first.

Michael

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