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A Php page with this below code:
$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']
I'm loading this page from my Edge browser on my notebook. It returns the below dump of text.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.140 Safari/537.36 Edge/17.17134
How can it be mentioning Mozilla ,Apple, Chrome, Safari, Edge all at a time?
Any guess what does this mean?
I just want to pick up the current browser info that the user is using.
(By any chance it's listing all what I've installed on my machine?)
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It's because of idiots blocking access to their webpages for specific browsers.
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Damnit. I just authorized a team to develop a browser specific implementation to make sure the freaking Safari don't mess up the roll out. Anyway it's a mini project, an utility. But my boss would recognize my ignorance with this wrong approval. 
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Google is simply looking to reestablish a way to tell what browser the user is using so it can promote Chrome by deprecating features for non-Chrome browsers. Just another part of not being evil.
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Instead of actively blocking certain browsers, they should just support a specific browser/browser engine (and version), say as much on their help/about page, and let the rest of the users be subjected to the whims of the HTML/CSS gods.
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This page best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4+ or Explorer 4+
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It is what Microsoft decided to put there...
It is the same for almost all the modern browsers...
Instead of identifying the browser it list a kind-of compatibility list...
The reason for that is that they really do not want you to identify the browser (as a developer)...
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Got it 
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At least, one time in the past, MS supported different methods of doing things than other browsers (such as AJAX) and used a different rendering engine with different compatibilities with respect to HTML/CSS
Then, in one of the last incarnation of IE (where it had that name) they changed it so it couldn't be identified as IE because they were making the changes to fall in line (sort of) with other browsers. If they were identified as IE it would then mess things up.
At least once upon a time.
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WebAIM: History of the browser user-agent string[^]
The "simple" solution is to use feature detection rather than browser detection.
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- Homer
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thanks a lot for the info.
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To add to the other comments, the usar agent is pretty easy to spoof: user agent spoofing - Google Search[^]
I ran for a while with mine reporting an LCARS browser ... 
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Nand32 wrote: Any guess what does this mean?
It means web development is a mine field of browser incompatibilities, bugs, fixes, (non-)standards and weird implementations 
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And we no longer can blame IE6 for being responsible for all the world's browser incompatibilites 
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Sure we can.
It's all IE6's fault.
See? I just did 
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Germany indicates small extension in the morning, for one state of cleansing. (15)
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Germany DE
indicates small
extension CONT
in the morning AM
for one I
state NATION
of cleansing
DECONTAMINATION
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Perfect (though I expect nothing less from Griff).
Over to you...
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I look at these every day - and, when I see the answer, I sometimes get it!
I'm almost there with this one - apart from 'CONT'. How is that a small extension?
Just in case this is a really stupid question, I've never been afraid to ask them, so no need to worry about my feelings!!! Be blunt if needed.
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An abbreviation for continuation, I assume.
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It's kinda old fashioned now, but :
Cont. is an abbreviation for 'continued', which is used at the bottom of a page to indicate that a letter or text continues on another page.
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old fashioned - how dare you .. I love (a slight variation) 'cont/d' at the bottom of my pages 
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I'll let you decide;
These so called "environmentally-friendly" wind turbines are all well and good, but surely statistically 50% of the time the wind is blowing the other way? This will make them spin in the opposite direction, sucking power from the grid instead.
Letter to the editor of a newspaper...
That's about as logical as this[^]
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