What does the word “Trident” in my user agent string refer to?
It means that the version of IE is 11 and the version of Trident is 7. For each IE version since at least IE 8, the Trident version has been the IE version – 4. So IE 8 had Trident/4.0.
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Is server-side user agent detection/sniffing bad?
I think it depends what your motivation is. For example, in the mobile web sector what you are attempting to do is provide the user with something that looks sensible on their platform. Why be concerned about what user-agent the user is reporting, when it is purely for their own benefit? If they go to … Read more
Setting a custom userAgent in HTML or JavaScript
This is working for me. Object.defineProperty(navigator, ‘userAgent’, { get: function () { return ‘Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0)’; } }); It is an updated version of code4coffee’s answer as Object.prototype.__defineGetter__() is deprecated: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object/__defineGetter__
Detect mobile browser (not just iPhone) in python view
Update: I just found: http://code.google.com/p/minidetector/ Which seems to do exactly what I want, I’m going to test now. Feel free to tell me i’m wrong!
Detect mobile devices with Django and Python 3
Django User Agents package is compatible with Python 3. Follow the installation instructions in the link provided above and then you can use it as follows: def my_view(request): # Let’s assume that the visitor uses an iPhone… request.user_agent.is_mobile # returns True request.user_agent.is_tablet # returns False request.user_agent.is_touch_capable # returns True request.user_agent.is_pc # returns False request.user_agent.is_bot # … Read more
Ajax request: Refused to set unsafe header
You can’t. It is impossible. The specification requires that the browser abort the setRequestHeader method if you try to set the Referer header (it used to be that User-Agent was also forbidden but that has changed).. If you need to set Referer manually then you’ll need to make the request from your server and not … Read more
Is there a good method for parsing the user-agent string?
Have a look at the Java library I wrote for this purpose: Yauaa I made a very simple servlet where you can try it out to see if it gives the answers you are looking for: https://try.yauaa.basjes.nl/ It is Apache 2 licensed and published into Maven so using it in a Java application is really … Read more