PHP: getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT") weirdness.

[Glaanieboy]

I am trying to create a sig like on Danasoft. One of the things the script should show, is which browser the one that is watching the sig is using. I am playing around a bit, and I found out that my IE6 has this HTTP_USER_AGENT signature:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Why Mozilla? Is IE using pieces of Mozilla code? Or is IE in fact Mozilla?

 

[X-Istence]

It has always identified itself as that, one of the more reasons some stats scripts think that the older mozilla's are in fact IE's.

Nothing weird about that. Normal to see that.

 

[NetRyder]

To identify a browser as IE, just look for the MSIE string within the user agent string. The initial "Mozilla" string is used by all browsers.

 

[SPeedY_B]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/85.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/85.6

I thought all browsers had the Mozilla/x.x ?

 

[X-Istence]

Not all as far as i know, but yes most do.

 

[SPeedY_B]

Some info on here: http://webtips.dan.info/brand-x/useragent.html

 

[X-Istence]

nice site Speedy.

 

[Maveric169]

Google search for Unsupported Browser

ROTFLMAO

Unsupported Browser
We are very sorry, but our web site will not work with your browser. ... isn't feasible
to make this site do what MOST users need and work with ALL web browsers. ...
Description: Mayor, City Council, boards and commissions, and other information from city government.
Category: Regional > North America > ... > K > Knoxville > Government
www.ci.knoxville.tn.us/ - 3k - Nov 28, 2003 - Cached - Similar pages

 

[X-Istence]

Its really sad, but sucks for those sites, less hits for them.