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donmon_10187
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Apr 14, 2015

Redirect based on User-Agent

Hello, We have an application that was recently upgraded (without our knowledge) and half of our users still use IE8. The new version of the application is not compatible with IE8 but the app owner...
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cjunior's avatar
cjunior
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Apr 14, 2015

Hi,

Try changing the "*msie8*" to "msie 8" (with space, no wildcard).

IE user-agent reference:

http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/Internet%20Explorer/

Example:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if { [string tolower [HTTP::header User-Agent]] contains "msie 8" } {
        if { not ([string tolower [HTTP::path]] starts_with "/onbaseweb12/") } {
            HTTP::redirect "http://onbase.com/OnBaseWeb12/"
        }
    } else {
        if { not ([string tolower [HTTP::path]] starts_with "/onbaseweb/") } {
            HTTP::redirect "http://onbase.com/OnBaseWeb/"
        }
    }
}

My IE9 is doing request with header "MSIE 7.0", so, maybe this condition will not work in some cases.

What about add a X-UA-Compatible header and change the IE rendering type? 
when HTTP_RESPONSE {
    HTTP::header insert "X-UA-Compatible" "IE=8"
}

I hope it helps.