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. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
