UserSniffer

Returns client info based upon REMOTE_USER_AGENT

UserSniffer is based upon the PHP3 script written by Roger Raymond.  You can find the original PHP3 script at http://phpclasses.upperdesign.com/browse.html/package/81.

UserSniffer exposes the following tags:

• browser - Browser Name (Netscape, IE, Opera, iCab, Lynx, Konqueror, Unknown)
• version - Browser Full Version
• majorver - Browser Major Version
• minorver - Browser Minor Version
• aol - True/False
• webtv - True/False
• lynx - True/False
• konqueror - True/False
• javascript - Assumed JavaScript Version Supported by Browser
• platform - System Platform (Win16,Win32,Mac,OS2,Unix)
• os - System OS (Win98,OS2,Mac68k,linux,bsd,etc...) see code
• ip - Client IP Address
• languages - Dictionary

Installation Notes

• Extract tgz file into the Zope directory, or the zip file into the Extensions directory.
• Add a new External Method to your Zope web space
  • ID: UserSniffer
  • Function Name: UserSniffer
  • Python Module: UserSniffer
• Set a variable to the result of the UserSniffer:
  <dtml-call "REQUEST.set( sniffer, UserSniffer() )">
• Access each of the variables through the "sniffer" dictionary:
  <dtml-var "sniffer[ browser ]">

Changes since 1.2:

• Changed order of Opera and Konqueror so that they are not confused with IE and Netscape respectively
• Modified OS logic so that default is "Unknown" and not "Win9xNT"
• Tested and verified results with over 3,000 different User-Agent strings

Changes since 1.1:

• added detection of Lynx and Konqueror browsers and two new variables: lynx & konqueror
• changed detection of browser version so that it won't crash if there is a letter in the version
• added dictionary of acceptable languages by the browser in the languages tag.  Returns a dictionary of ['Unknown'] if the browser didn't send any languages

	Title	Type	Size	Modified	Status
	1.21	Software Release		2001-07-15	published