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Bharath ABK
Bharath ABK

Reputation: 444

Browser version detection without using JavaScript?

Identifying the version of a browser using JavaScript is quite straight forward.

Is there any way to identify the browser version without using JavaScript libraries??

I just felt that there should be some way to identify the browser version without using any external libraries. I'm just very much curious to know if there is any way to do so..

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1198

Answers (5)

m.edmondson
m.edmondson

Reputation: 30922

If you're wanting to do this client-side, then you certainly can use javascript. However this is also trivial with most server-side languages. All you need is access to the User Agent HTTP header.

Upvotes: 1

airportyh
airportyh

Reputation: 22668

Are you thinking of detection on the server side? For PHP there is this.

Upvotes: 0

David
David

Reputation: 2331

You can include conditional comments in your HTML to select versions of IE, but as far as I know, it doesn't work for other browsers. http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/cc-plus.html

Upvotes: 0

Lucas
Lucas

Reputation: 14969

The http request contains the header User-Agent

Upvotes: 1

Quentin
Quentin

Reputation: 944256

Most libraries just parse the user-agent string, which is sent to the server as an HTTP header, so any server side process could do it.

The usual warnings about browser sniffing being unreliable, hard to maintain, and usually the wrong solution to any given problem apply.

Upvotes: 1

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