CFLib.org – browserDetect

browserDetect([UserAgent])

Last updated June 28, 2009

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Version: 4 | Requires: ColdFusion 8 | Library: UtilityLib

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Description:
Detects what browser the user is using and version number. If the HTTP_USER_AGENT is stripped by a firewall or unknown (edited) Agent ID string, an "Unknown" is returned.

Return Values:
Returns a string.

Example:

<cfoutput>#browserDetect()#</cfoutput>

Parameters:

Name	Description	Required
UserAgent	User agent string to parse. Defaults to cgi.http_user_agent.	No

Full UDF Source:

	
	<cfscript>
/**
 * Detects 130+ browsers.
 * v2 by Daniel Harvey, adds Flock/Chrome and Safari fix.
 * 
 * @param UserAgent      User agent string to parse. Defaults to cgi.http_user_agent. (Optional)
 * @return Returns a string. 
 * @author John Bartlett (jbartlett@strangejourney.net) 
 * @version 4, June 28, 2009 
 */
function browserDetect() {

// Default User Agent to the CGI browser string
var UserAgent=CGI.HTTP_USER_AGENT;

// Regex to parse out version numbers
var VerNo="/?v?_? ?v?[\(?]?([A-Z0-9]*\.){0,9}[A-Z0-9\-.]*(?=[^A-Z0-9])";

// List of browser names
var BrowserList="";

// Identified browser info
var BrowserName="";
var BrowserVer="";

// Working variables
var Browser="";
var tmp="";
var tmp2="";
var x=0;


// If a value was passed to the function, use it as the User Agent
if (ArrayLen(Arguments) EQ 1) UserAgent=Arguments[1];

// Allow regex to match on EOL and instring
UserAgent=UserAgent & " ";

// Browser List (Allows regex - see BlackBerry for example)
BrowserList="1X|Amaya|Ubuntu APT-HTTP|AmigaVoyager|Android|Arachne|Amiga-AWeb|Arora|Bison|Bluefish|Browsex|Camino|Check&Get|Chimera|Chrome|Contiki|cURL|Democracy|" &
            "Dillo|DocZilla|edbrowse|ELinks|Emacs-W3|Epiphany|Galeon|Minefield|Firebird|Phoenix|Flock|IceApe|IceWeasel|IceCat|Gnuzilla|" &
            "Google|Google-Sitemaps|HTTPClient|HP Web PrintSmart|IBrowse|iCab|ICE Browser|Kazehakase|KKman|K-Meleon|Konqueror|Links|Lobo|Lynx|Mosaic|SeaMonkey|" &
            "muCommander|NetPositive|Navigator|NetSurf|OmniWeb|Acorn Browse|Oregano|Prism|retawq|Shiira Safari|Shiretoko|Sleipnir|Songbird|Strata|Sylera|" &
            "ThunderBrowse|W3CLineMode|WebCapture|WebTV|w3m|Wget|Xenu_Link_Sleuth|Oregano|xChaos_Arachne|WDG_Validator|W3C_Validator|" &
            "Jigsaw|PLAYSTATION 3|PlayStation Portable|IPD|" &
            "AvantGo|DoCoMo|UP.Browser|Vodafone|J-PHONE|PDXGW|ASTEL|EudoraWeb|Minimo|PLink|NetFront|Xiino|";
            // Mobile strings
            BrowserList=BrowserList & "iPhone|Vodafone|J-PHONE|DDIPocket|EudoraWeb|Minimo|PLink|Plucker|NetFront|PIE|Xiino|" &
            "Opera Mini|IEMobile|portalmmm|OpVer|MobileExplorer|Blazer|MobileExplorer|Opera Mobi|BlackBerry\d*[A-Za-z]?|" &
            "PPC|PalmOS|Smartphone|Netscape|Opera|Safari|Firefox|MSIE|HP iPAQ|LGE|MOT-[A-Z0-9\-]*|Nokia|";

            // No browser version given
            BrowserList=BrowserList & "AlphaServer|Charon|Fetch|Hv3|IIgs|Mothra|Netmath|OffByOne|pango-text|Avant Browser|midori|Smart Bro|Swiftfox";

            // Identify browser and version
Browser=REMatchNoCase("(#BrowserList#)/?#VerNo#",UserAgent);

if (ArrayLen(Browser) GT 0) {

    if (ArrayLen(Browser) GT 1) {

        // If multiple browsers detected, delete the common "spoofed" browsers
        if (Browser[1] EQ "MSIE 6.0" AND Browser[2] EQ "MSIE 7.0") ArrayDeleteAt(Browser,1);
        if (Browser[1] EQ "MSIE 7.0" AND Browser[2] EQ "MSIE 6.0") ArrayDeleteAt(Browser,2);
        tmp2=Browser[ArrayLen(Browser)];

        for (x=ArrayLen(Browser); x GTE 1; x=x-1) {
            tmp=Rematchnocase("[A-Za-z0-9.]*",Browser[x]);
            if (ListFindNoCase("Navigator,Netscape,Opera,Safari,Firefox,MSIE,PalmOS,PPC",tmp[1]) GT 0) ArrayDeleteAt(Browser,x);
        }

        if (ArrayLen(Browser) EQ 0) Browser[1]=tmp2;
    }

    // Seperate out browser name and version number
    tmp=Rematchnocase("[A-Za-z0-9. _\-&]*",Browser[1]);

    Browser=tmp[1];

    if (ArrayLen(tmp) EQ 2) BrowserVer=tmp[2];

    // Handle "Version" in browser string
    tmp=REMatchNoCase("Version/?#VerNo#",UserAgent);

    if (ArrayLen(tmp) EQ 1) {
        tmp=Rematchnocase("[A-Za-z0-9.]*",tmp[1]);
        BrowserVer=tmp[2];
    }

    // Handle multiple BlackBerry browser strings
    if (Left(Browser,10) EQ "BlackBerry") Browser="BlackBerry";

    // Return result
    return Browser & " " & BrowserVer;

}

// Unable to identify browser
return "Unknown";

}
</cfscript>