----- Original Message ----- From: "Margrit McIntosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Support for analog web log analyzer" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 6:31 PM Subject: [analog-help] Browsers: Netscape vs "Netscape (compatible)
> I sent this query a while back and got no answer. Anyone want to take a > crack at it? This is with regard to the Browser Summary. In our server > logs, the appCodeName is ALWAYS Mozilla, and the appName for Mozilla, > Netscape, Safari and Firefox is always "Netscape." So how does the report > derive "Mozilla," "Netscape" and "Netscape (compatible)"? If you look in your logfiles, you'll see that the Browser that was used to make each request is recorded, usually at the end of each log entry. These look something like this: "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 98)" "Mozilla/4.0 [en] (X11; I; Linux)" "Mozilla" was the name used by the original Netscape browser. At the time, some web servers would check the browser type, and only serve up "rich" content to browsers that identified themselves as Mozilla. So when Internet Explorer turned up, and began to support much of the functionality that Netscape had, IE found that it had to use Mozilla in it's Browser ID too, or else those servers would only display text pages, or wouldn't display the "eye-candy" that made (some!) people want to use the Internet - but they tacked on the (compatible...) information, to tell what browser was really being used. "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 98)" is obviously IE version 4.0. "Mozilla/4.0 [en] (X11; I; Linux)" is Netscape 4.0. (Those two entries came from the sample log file that is included with Analog). Firefox is a member of the Mozilla family - it identifies itself as Mozilla 5.0 and Firefox 1.0, and also mentions the Gecko rendering engine that it uses: Mozilla/5.0+(Windows;+U;+Windows+NT+5.0;+en-GB;+rv:1.7.5)+Gecko/20041110 +Firefox/1.0 Safari is a Mac browser - I don't know if it has any direct connection w ith the original Mozilla codebase. Aengus +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.meer.net/mailman/listinfo/analog-help | | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives +------------------------------------------------------------------------
