[thelist] Is it my Opera or the server?

Judah McAuley judah at wiredotter.com
Wed Sep 25 12:08:01 CDT 2002


Nik Schramm wrote:
> Either filter out Opera using ServerSide UserAgentString detection (this
> is easy with .NET, use Request.UserAgent and check if it contains
> "Opera", in which case it's probably an Opera browser) and code the
> poage in such a way that Opera does not get <optgroup> tags in its page
> or alternatively lose the <optgroup> tags altogether.

Note also that Opera provides the ability to change the useragent string
so you may not be able to detect that the visiting browser is Opera.
I've heard of many Opera users that change their user agent setting to
advertise the browser as IE so they get through user agent checks.

Judah






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