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Re: Server side browser identification

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ldaly@acs.bu.edu)
Fri May 5 19:43:04 1995

Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 19:16:40 +0500
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> I know that there is a way to check what browser is accessing your server.
> I remember seeing this on a URL somewhere.

The URL very well might have been http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/env.html,
which is a listing of most (but not all) CGI environment variables.
The variable HTTP_USER_AGENT is the one you're after.

--Liza

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