On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Gregory Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can you suggest a good user-agent scrubber? Many user-agents strings
> have various degrees of private/semi-private data stuffed into them.
>
> I've looked at publishing user-agent stats for Wikimedia site before,
> but realized that I don't have enough knowledge to safely canonicize
> them without throwing out a ton of information. (I.e. I could break
> down IE vs Firefox vs Opera vs Safari; but if you want to know about
> less common user agents I'm not quite sure what information can be
> safely released)

PHP has a built-in function that does this:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.get-browser.php

It's apparently configurable using a .ini file.  Probably there are
some fairly good ones available.

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