Comments on: Safari, UA Sniffing, and HTTP_ACCEPT

By: TjL

TjL — Wed, 24 Sep 2003 15:08:23 +0000

Opera 7.2 (just released) fixes that flaw.

By: Vlad

Vlad — Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:31:10 +0000

How about that?! Opera 7 does lie. It sends a false HTTPACCEPT string. It does support application/xhtml+xml, though it doesn't admit it. Here's its HTTPACCEPT string: "text/html, image/png, image/jpeg, image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, /;q=0.1". Now... What do you say about that? I don't have anything against Opera. Well... I do, but that's not important right now. Nothing much, anyway. But this really pisses me off. Should I sniff for it in order to send application/xhtml+xml content? I don't think so...

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:16:28 +0000

So let me get this right, Safari identifies itself as pretty much every browser out there APART from KHTML and IE? And I thought the Gecko string was bad.

By: scott

scott — Fri, 07 Feb 2003 09:13:14 +0000

Also Safari does not send the UserAgent string when requesting .ico files - I filter those agents that do not send a useragent string - spam bots often don't send a user string either.

Safari User_agents get added to my 'banned list' and can no longer access my site - poor them!

Scott

By: Jan!

Jan! — Wed, 08 Jan 2003 15:24:47 +0000

That solution is not 100% reliable, I'm afraid. It is possible to specify a preference level, q, saying how willing to accept a certain MIME type the browser is. So "application/xhtml; q=0.0" would mean the browser can NOT handle XHTML at all.

(This is from the top off my head, so I'm not 100% sure about the above syntax.)