Question

I am trying to do a “If browser is IE and is less than version 9” in ASP.Net C# codebehind.

However, In chrome, the following line:

if (Request.Browser.Browser == "IE" && Request.Browser.MajorVersion < 9)

Outputs as “IE” & 5 respectively. Despite using Chrome v18.

What is the correct usage for getting the users browser? Or is this just my version of Chrome playing up? It’s probably really simple, but I’m sure this code worked previously

The user agent is registering as:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.168 Safari/535.19

Answer 1

I have v19 and i do see the correct value. Are you sure you don’t have any emulator (user agent emulator) or something like this…

chrome 19

Browser Capabilities
Type = Chrome19
Name = Chrome
Version = 19.0
Major Version = 19
Minor Version = 0
Platform = WinNT
Is Beta = False
Is Crawler = False
Is AOL = False
Is Win16 = False
Is Win32 = True
Supports Frames = True
Supports Tables = True
Supports Cookies = True
Supports VBScript = False
Supports JavaScript = 3.0
Supports Java Applets = True
Supports ActiveX Controls = False
Supports JavaScript Version = 1.7

ie 8

Browser Capabilities
Type = IE7
Name = IE
Version = 7.0
Major Version = 7
Minor Version = 0
Platform = WinNT
Is Beta = False
Is Crawler = False
Is AOL = False
Is Win16 = False
Is Win32 = True
Supports Frames = True
Supports Tables = True
Supports Cookies = True
Supports VBScript = True
Supports JavaScript = 3.0
Supports Java Applets = True
Supports ActiveX Controls = True
Supports JavaScript Version = 1.5

and this is the code for this output:

   string s = "Browser Capabilities\n"
            + "Type = " + browser.Type + "\n"
            + "Name = " + browser.Browser + "\n"
            + "Version = " + browser.Version + "\n"
            + "Major Version = " + browser.MajorVersion + "\n"
            + "Minor Version = " + browser.MinorVersion + "\n"
            + "Platform = " + browser.Platform + "\n"
            + "Is Beta = " + browser.Beta + "\n"
            + "Is Crawler = " + browser.Crawler + "\n"
            + "Is AOL = " + browser.AOL + "\n"
            + "Is Win16 = " + browser.Win16 + "\n"
            + "Is Win32 = " + browser.Win32 + "\n"
            + "Supports Frames = " + browser.Frames + "\n"
            + "Supports Tables = " + browser.Tables + "\n"
            + "Supports Cookies = " + browser.Cookies + "\n"
            + "Supports VBScript = " + browser.VBScript + "\n"
            + "Supports JavaScript = " +
                browser.EcmaScriptVersion.ToString() + "\n"
            + "Supports Java Applets = " + browser.JavaApplets + "\n"
            + "Supports ActiveX Controls = " + browser.ActiveXControls
                  + "\n"
            + "Supports JavaScript Version = " +
                browser["JavaScriptVersion"] + "\n";