Mozilla user agent escapes detection

From: Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:39:42 +0000
Subject: Mozilla user agent escapes detection
Groups: php.general 
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PHP List, I have a script, part of which is taken from a script I found on the 'net, which tries to detect the user agent of the browser accessing the site. One of the reasons I'm doing this is to find out if the browser is a desktop or mobile. Part of the code looks like this: $ua = strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']); $isDesktop = (strpos($ua, 'firefox') !== false) || (strpos($ua,'mosaic') !== false) || (strpos($ua,'msie') !== false) || (strpos($ua,'opera') !== false) || (strpos($ua,'mozilla') !== false) || (strpos($ua,'w3c_css_validator') !== false) || (strpos($ua,'w3c_validator') !== false); What's driving me crazy is that it successfully determines all the browsers listed there, *except* mozilla. I have a log file which alerts me when an unknown browser comes through my site, and it's chock full of messages telling me that a Mozilla based browser has come by. There are a *lot* of Mozilla based browsers. Some examples from my logs of the browsers slipping by my test: HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 compatible; Yahoo! Slurp HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 compatible; Googlebot/2.1 HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 X11; U; Linux i686 In each case, the strpos() should have seen the mozilla agent and not bothered logging it. It's not complicated code, especially considering it's successfully finding msie and firefox. I can't imagine why Mozilla would be different. Any suggestions? Is there something about my code right in front of my face that I'm not seeing? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Dave M G

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