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Mike_Pones_6391
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NimbostratusUser Agent?
I have a customer that is asking if I can make a load balance decition based on the URL and the user agent. I am not familiar with the user agent, but it sounds like it must add something to the requ...
Actually Opera allows the user to choose what browser type it reports. It offers Opera, Mozilla 5.0 and MSIE 6.0 :-) In all cases, the User-Agent string contains Opera (either at the begining or at the end). So, you should check for Opera before Mozilla and MSIE because the User-Agent string may contain both of them (along with Opera) ... or use a regular expression to narrow down the match (but it is slower than simple string matches).
