SSI browser detection...
Wonder if anyone here can help me with this, as the Apache documentation hasn't. Before I plough ahead with the programming I wondered if anyone knows how you can detect the browser using SSI?
What I want to do is print an appropriate line (to be exact, a stylesheet tag) to the page depending on their browser. Would I do an exec command and run some kind of script?
Sorry for being a bit vague but I'm new to SSI.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Suzanne posted this at 21:31 — 5th March 2001.
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Look for http- as a key word at apache, or try the tuts on ssi at http://www.bignosedbird.com.
In a nutshell, yes, you can use SSI to read the browser, but a word of caution -- you will likely need to explore some scripting methods for SSI, like those found at http://www.webdesignclinic.com/ezine/v1i1/ssi/index.html
Sorry I can't be more specific, I've never tried to do it with SSI, though I regularly read specs through email forms and of course in my site stats that use it.
fifeclub posted this at 03:40 — 7th March 2001.
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Can a simple java script be used to determine which SSI code to use?
ronniec posted this at 20:18 — 9th March 2001.
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That's what I'm doing ATM - using JS to detect the browser and print a different
AndyB posted this at 19:54 — 10th March 2001.
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to detect a browser, then
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/sniffer/browser_type.html
even includes code to detect webTV and Opera (which can be set to masquerade as other browsers).
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