$HTTP_USER_AGENT will return the browser reference string, but you may well have to parse it quite substantially to extract the actual distinct version of a given browser.
For instance, on my XP machine, Internet Explorer 7 reports: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648) from which you can determine the MSIE 7.0 part quite readily. Some browsers do not report the information as unambigously, although I think these days most are pretty sensible. On the same system Opera reports: Opera/9.62 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en-GB) Presto/2.1.1 Firefox gives: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 HTH Nicolas Cueto-4 wrote: > > Hello List, > > Wish I knew the terminology that'd make clearer this question... > > What command (global?) do I work with in a Rev cgi script > when I want to retrieve information about the browser (user agent?) > during a GET command? > > I have managed to retrieve server-related globals using this > script: > > #!TheRevEngine > on startup > repeat for each item i in the globals > put i && "=" && value(i) & return after buffer > end repeat > read from stdin until empty > put it after buffer > put "Content-Type: text/plain" & cr > put "Content-Length:" && the length of buffer & cr & cr > put buffer > end startup > > However, nowhere in that returned data is there information > about the user's browser. > > (The reason I'm after this is that, to individualize the look of > my webpages for cell-phone users here in Japan, I first need > to know what phone-provider a person is using when visiting > one of my web-urls. From PHP guides on this topic, it seems > that this information is passed invisibly between the cell-phone's > browser and the web-server.) > > Hope that was clear. > > Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Rev-cgi-way-to-GET-browser-info-tp22299729p22300334.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
