New Droid UA

Has anyone seen then in the wild yet?

[GaryK]

I'm trying to add the new Droid phone to my browscap.ini file. The only UA I've seen so far was sent to be by one of my users and it just doesn't look like a legit UA to me.

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.0; en-us; Droid Build/ ESD20) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) ESD20) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17

If any of you have seen one in the wild please share it with me. Thanks. :)

[phranque]

there is a slight typo/duplo in your UA string but i have just verified that my droid browser provides this in the request headers:

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.0; en-us; Droid Build/ ESD20) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17

[GaryK]

Phranque, someone from my browser project sent me that UA along with the line from his log files. It might be spoofed or otherwise edited, but it's not a typo on my part. :)

Thanks for sharing the UA you posted!

[jdMorgan]

phranque's UA matches the regex in my whitelist, developed during Android's beta phase. The UA with the extra " ESD20)" won't match, so my whitelist would block that one.

However, as with any new user-agent, I can't be sure that this isn't just another messed-up but legitimate UA string - they're all too common with mobile devices, which tend to be rushed to market to meet marketing deadlines whether they're really ready or not. Only time (and a lot more hits from this UA) will tell...

Jim