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Checking Browser type & Version Number [message #1015791]

Sun, 03 March 2013 05:31

Ronald So

Messages: 198
Registered: April 2011

Senior Member

Hi,

I realized that we can issue this call to get some header information of the HttpServletRequest.

RWT.getRequest().getHeader("User-agent");

And these are two examples of return.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.5) Gecko/20120606 Firefox/10.0.5
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/536.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.56 Safari/536.5

Is there a reliable way (such as other API calls) to retrieve the browser version number other than parsing the string above?

Thanks,
Ronald

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Re: Checking Browser type & Version Number [message #1015879 is a reply to message #1015791]

Mon, 04 March 2013 06:45

Markus Duft

Messages: 148
Registered: February 2013

Senior Member

AFAICT there is no other way. We detect browsers by matching versions in the string Wink

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Re: Checking Browser type & Version Number [message #1016035 is a reply to message #1015879]

Mon, 04 March 2013 16:37

Ronald So

Messages: 198
Registered: April 2011

Senior Member

Alright. Thanks Markus!

Apologize to the board about the repeated messages that got posted in the forum. I swear that I only hit the submit button once!!! Sad