Bert,

Thanks for the explanation.  That was exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks,
Keith D Sellars
WebGraffix
www.webgraffix.com

"Making database sites seem easy"

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bert" <bdoorn(at)iprimus.com.au>
To: "Keith Sellars" <Keith(at)webgraffix.com>
Cc: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: NN or IE?


> 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
> --
> Bert Doorn, Web Developer
> CIW Associate, IWA Member
> www.betterwebdesign.com.au
> Fast Loading, User Friendly Websites
>
>
>
>

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