Re: Bug in ASP.NET (Request.Browser)

From: Michael O'Donovan [MSFT] (michodon_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/04/04 

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 13:43:16 +0100

Hi Ganesh,

You could try and view the HttpHeader "User-Agent" instead to see what the
browser is actually sending to the web server. The easiest way to view this
is to enable page tracing on a .aspx in your application.

Hope this helps,
Michael 

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"Ganesh" <Ganesh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:E111CFD6-3AFC-40CB-96CA-F1AC75049D88@microsoft.com...
>I am a .NET Professional and working in web development.
> I found a bug (i think so) while using Request.Browser object to identify 
> the browser name and version.
> It shows me the correct browser name and version when i request the page 
> from Internet Explorer 6.0. But
> when i request the page from Netscape 7.1 it shows me the version as 5.0 
> and major version as 5 and minor version as 0.
>
> Is it a bug? Please clarify.

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