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From: Ashwin on 8 Feb 2010 05:43
The Workaround which we are looking at is that is there any way to fetch the
useragent string with the Browser version and Windows platform details even
though its length is greater than 256??

We are making use of Navigator object of the Javascript to fetch the
useragent and trying to access an asp page.

"Ashwin" wrote:

> Thanks Rob for the Reply.
>
> But in our application. along with the check for IE version we also perform
> a check whether the platform is Windows or not but since the useragent
> doesnt return this detail our check fails and we are not able to access the
> application.
>
> And we can not remove the check for Windows. IS there any other workaround
> for this.
>
> "Rob" wrote:
>
> > Ashwin <Ashwin(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am trying to access a web application which only supports IE version 5.01
> > > and above. In order to perform this check we use USerAgent string to check
> > > the IE version and then allow the users to access the application.
> > >
> > > While testing we found out that on Windows XP IE 6.0 when the user agent is
> > > beyong 256 character length, the rest of the useragent string is getting
> > > truncated and it is only returning Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0;).
> > > However this is not the case with IE 7.0 and IE 8.0.
> > >
> > > Is this a known issue in IE 6.0 and do this have any workaroound?
> >
> > What is your issue and what workaround do you need?
> > Your "only" agent string "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0;)" does contain
> > all you need to know about the version number, doesn't it?
> > .
> >
From: Hot-text on 14 Feb 2010 05:48
YES BUT NOT THE WAY YOU DOING IT!

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; MSDigitalLocker;
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; .NET CLR 1.0.3705;
..NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR
2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729;
OfficeLiveConnector.1.4; OfficeLivePatch.1.3)

YOU SEE OfficeLiveConnector.1.4; OfficeLivePatch.1.3 <<< That is WINDOWS
LIVE MAIL <<<

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR
2.0.50727)

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; DotBot/1.1; http://www.dotnetdotcom.org/,
crawler(a)dotnetdotcom.org)

You need a good WebServer Log the USER-AGENT for you Like this one>>
http://www.networkactiv.com/WebServer.html

And a Good DNS Server
http://www.dyndns.com/

And A Good DNS UPDATER
http://www.kanasolution.com/

And a Hidden Image on you webpage to make the log

In NetworkActic go to >>click on Preferences >>click on Configuration for
automatic logging >>Check on I do not need to say more!



"Ashwin" <Ashwin(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:61060D07-453E-4515-BB75-13FB2DCE1A14(a)microsoft.com...
> The Workaround which we are looking at is that is there any way to fetch
> the
> useragent string with the Browser version and Windows platform details
> even
> though its length is greater than 256??
>
> We are making use of Navigator object of the Javascript to fetch the
> useragent and trying to access an asp page.
>
> "Ashwin" wrote:
>
>> Thanks Rob for the Reply.
>>
>> But in our application. along with the check for IE version we also
>> perform
>> a check whether the platform is Windows or not but since the useragent
>> doesnt return this detail our check fails and we are not able to access
>> the
>> application.
>>
>> And we can not remove the check for Windows. IS there any other
>> workaround
>> for this.
>>
>> "Rob" wrote:
>>
>> > Ashwin <Ashwin(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > I am trying to access a web application which only supports IE
>> > > version 5.01
>> > > and above. In order to perform this check we use USerAgent string to
>> > > check
>> > > the IE version and then allow the users to access the application.
>> > >
>> > > While testing we found out that on Windows XP IE 6.0 when the user
>> > > agent is
>> > > beyong 256 character length, the rest of the useragent string is
>> > > getting
>> > > truncated and it is only returning Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE
>> > > 6.0;).
>> > > However this is not the case with IE 7.0 and IE 8.0.
>> > >
>> > > Is this a known issue in IE 6.0 and do this have any workaroound?
>> >
>> > What is your issue and what workaround do you need?
>> > Your "only" agent string "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0;)" does
>> > contain
>> > all you need to know about the version number, doesn't it?
>> > .
>> >
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