>> its userAgent or UserAgent String. Though its easy to send request with > any( fake) userAgent but its industry standard to get browser information > from userAgent only. >> http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/useragentstring.php >>>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:46 PM, James Mills <prologic at shortcircuit.net.au > > wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Sascha <samzielkeryner at gmail.com> wrote: >> > I am returning specialised website html according to what platform the >> > user is on. Is there a way to determine if the user is on a Smart >> > Phone or on IE or on Firefox? >>>> I have an iPad and just wrote a simple demo app to test this: >>>> http://prologic.no-ip.org:8000/ >>>> Source: http://codepad.org/zdZJgm1j >>>> Basically if you check for the string "iPad" in >> the User-Agent header. Obviously this only >> works for iPads running IOS and the built-in >> Safari Web Browser - but I'm sure other tablet/mobile >> devices provide similar unique User-Agent strings. >>>> cheers >> James >>>> -- >> -- James Mills >> -- >> -- "Problems are solved by method" >> -- >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >>>>-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/attachments/20110131/4536d06f/attachment-0001.html>