Laura Creighton wrote:
> I know there are some windows users whom I have sent there, and who have
> sent me screenshots where they were being told:
> "This device isn't running a Windows operating system", which
> was incorrect.  It may be due to private browsing, or their
> language choices, or, actually I don't know what all can cause this.

It's not hard to understand.  The web server doesn't have access to your
system.  It guesses that information based on the HTTP headers that were
sent by the browser.  There is no standard for how the browser
identification line is formatted, nor indeed does the standard require
one be present at all.  Some browsers are too clever, some intentionally
lie, some don't include it.

-- 
Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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