XP OS Agent string?

[Brett_Tabke]

What does an XP agent string for IE, Moz, or Opera look like? The os portion.

[tedster]

At the bottom of this page — [dhtmlnirvana.com...] under Windows Check, they say you can sniff for the XP operating system with this line of code:

this.winxp = (agent.indexOf("windows xp")!=-1);

So, I guess the agent string is "windows xp".

[littleman]

I've been hunting my logs for it, nothing yet.

[Brett_Tabke]

That's what I'm thinking little - where's it at? I can't find a single one.

[PeteU]

XP pro leaves UA like this

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

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[Air]

>Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

That's the only new OS string I saw too, there were some going back to September though, so I didn't think it was it. I guess it's the corporate folks on the MS Select program that got it early.

[Xoc]

If you had the MSDN Universal Subscription [msdn.microsoft.com] you've had Windows XP for maybe six months, through the late betas. So there are lots of people with it, not just from Microsoft.

MSDN is one of the best kept secrets. For ~$2000 you can get virtually all of Microsoft's software. If you are doing development on Microsoft platform this gives you all the tools you need. BTW, it is cheaper for me to buy it at buy.com than from Microsoft because I don't pay sales tax.

[Air]

>For ~$2000 you can get virtually all of Microsoft's software

That only give you the media, but if you install a particular software then you have to pay the corresponding license fee for it, or am I under a false impression?

[Xoc]

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