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Asked: 2026-05-28T01:07:59+00:00

I just want to know whether we can differentiate the user request. I mean,

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I just want to know whether we can differentiate the user request. I mean, I would like to render the pages according to the request. If the request comes from iPhone/iPad/Android then I will display the pages designed accordingly. Else I will display the normal HTML page.

I am not sure, if we can find out the type of the user based on the request. Can anyone help me out by posting some ideas ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I think you’re asking:

    Q: How can a web server identify the client platform?

    A: There’s no SURE way to do this.

    Your best bet is to look at the http header from the client request. Specifically, look at the “user-agent”.
    Here’s a link with a similar question:

    Is it possible to identify Android apps from http headers?

    Here are three examples:

    http://www.askdavetaylor.com/detect_apple_iphone_user_web_site_server.html

    1) IE, from a Windows PC:

    HTTP_USER_AGENT=Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)

    2) An Apple iPhone with Safari:

    HTTP_USER_AGENT=Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en)
AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1C25 Safari/419.3

    3) An Android phone:

    Moxilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2; en-us; T-Mobile G2 Build/FRF91) AppleWebKit/533.1(KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1
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