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Detecting Operating System 1
- Thread starter Geraint1
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Hello, Geraint1.
It sure can be done. This type of problem is usually classified under the heading of "sniffing". So if you make a search on this keyword, you will find plenty.
It seems not much left for a new personal initiative. It does not. Most of the scripts I find are overstuffed and becoming hard to comprend at the end. If you are not very familiar with sniffing, my script below may be useful as a stepping stone. It is constructed for vbscript and javascript engine crossplatform. Hence, you will find vbscript part not performing in NS. I use only the read-only property userAgent of navigator object which contains by itself alone the complete info on browser, engine and OS of the client. I find using other properties for this purpose such as appName, appCodeName, appVersion unnecessarily burdening.
This introduces the construction. Below is the script itself. Hope you like it.
regards - tsuji
It sure can be done. This type of problem is usually classified under the heading of "sniffing". So if you make a search on this keyword, you will find plenty.
It seems not much left for a new personal initiative. It does not. Most of the scripts I find are overstuffed and becoming hard to comprend at the end. If you are not very familiar with sniffing, my script below may be useful as a stepping stone. It is constructed for vbscript and javascript engine crossplatform. Hence, you will find vbscript part not performing in NS. I use only the read-only property userAgent of navigator object which contains by itself alone the complete info on browser, engine and OS of the client. I find using other properties for this purpose such as appName, appCodeName, appVersion unnecessarily burdening.
This introduces the construction. Below is the script itself. Hope you like it.
regards - tsuji
Code:
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>Sniff userAgent - /tsuji/</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FORM NAME="vbDetect">
<P><B>VBScript<BR>
<INPUT TYPE="Text" NAME="vbBrowser" SIZE=60 MAXLENGTH=80 VALUE="VBScript Broswer and OS Detection"><BR>
<INPUT TYPE="button" NAME ="vbBrowseruserAgent" VALUE="userAgent">
<INPUT TYPE="button" NAME = "vbClear" VALUE="clear">
</FORM>
<FORM NAME="jsDetect">
<P><B>JavaScript<BR>
<INPUT TYPE="Text" NAME="jsBrowser" SIZE=60 MAXLENGTH=80 VALUE="JavaScript Broswer and OS Detection"><BR>
<INPUT TYPE="button" NAME="jsBrowseruserAgent" VALUE="userAgent">
<INPUT TYPE="button" NAME="jsClear" VALUE="clear">
</FORM>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript">
<!--
Sub vbBrowserUserAgent_OnClick()
document.vbDetect.vbBrowser.value = navigator.userAgent
End Sub
Sub vbClear_OnClick()
document.vbDetect.vbBrowser.value = "VBScript Browser and OS Detection"
End Sub
'-->
</SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="Javascript">
<!--
function jsBrowseruserAgent_onclick() {
document.jsDetect.jsBrowser.value = navigator.userAgent
}
function jsClear_onclick() {
document.jsDetect.jsBrowser.value = "JavaScript Browser and OS Detection"
}
document.jsDetect.jsBrowseruserAgent.onclick = jsBrowseruserAgent_onclick;
document.jsDetect.jsClear.onclick = jsClear_onclick;
//-->
</SCRIPT>
</BODY>
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