Re: Browser ID/User Agent

2017-08-01 Thread Daniel Silverstone
On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 21:40:57 +0100, John Williams wrote:
> 
> I've been doing some stuff recently with browser ID strings, and find that
> it is quite complicated!
> 
> There is stuff called Mozilla compatibility, platform, platform details,
> specific enhancements etcetera! All very difficult to untangle!
> 
> But NetSurf (RISC OS) resolutely reports itself as:
> 
> NetSurf/3.7 (RISC OS)
> 
> which isn't terribly helpful/compatible with the likes of, for instance:
> 
> Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; SAMSUNG SM-T550 Build/MMB29M) 
> AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SamsungBrowser/4.0 
> Chrome/44.0.2403.133 Safari/537.36
> 
> Observations, please!

NetSurf is not telling lies.  In addition, browser name sniffing is considered
harmful because of how many extensions exist which allow you to change it.
Basically just "no".

D.

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Browser ID/User Agent

2017-08-01 Thread John Williams

I've been doing some stuff recently with browser ID strings, and find that
it is quite complicated!

There is stuff called Mozilla compatibility, platform, platform details,
specific enhancements etcetera! All very difficult to untangle!

But NetSurf (RISC OS) resolutely reports itself as:

NetSurf/3.7 (RISC OS)

which isn't terribly helpful/compatible with the likes of, for instance:

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; SAMSUNG SM-T550 Build/MMB29M) 
AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SamsungBrowser/4.0 
Chrome/44.0.2403.133 Safari/537.36

Observations, please!

John

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