Re: NN or IE?

by "Bert" <bdoorn(at)iprimus.com.au>

Date:	Mon, 15 Apr 2002 09:05:53 +0800
To:	"Keith Sellars" <Keith(at)webgraffix.com>
Cc:	<hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
References:	S0026260871
	todo: View Thread, Original

G'day

> Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0b; Windows NT 5.1)
> Is this telling me that this particular viewer is using Netscape
> (Mozilla)?  If so, what do the remaining lines mean?

It is saying the visitor is using MSIE 6.0b on Windows NT 5.1 (Windows XP?).
It is also saying that MSIE 6.0b is compatible with (or based on) Mozilla
4.0

A lot of statistics programs get confused by such strings.  Indeed, a lot of
them get confused by AOL browsers too, which can have something like this:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; AOL 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461)  Some
stats programs report this as AOL 4 and some as Netscape 4 when really, the
visitor is using the AOL7 browser, using the MSIE6 engine.

Here's some more:

WEBTV:
    Mozilla/3.0 WebTV/1.2 (compatible; MSIE 2.0)
NETSCAPE 4:
    Mozilla/4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD EBM-Compaq  (Win95; U)
OPERA:
    Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 2000) Opera 6.01  [en]


Regards
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Bert Doorn, Web Developer
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