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Asked: 2026-05-13T23:04:46+00:00

Paul Silver had this post 7 years ago to check various browsers. Has there

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Paul Silver had this post 7 years ago to check various browsers. Has there been an updated script since then?
What I’d like is an if/then construct to tell what Operating System the user is on – it doesn’t have to go all the way down to the browser version.
I’m using the cgi.user_agent string to infer what OS they’re using.

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    You will be able to detect what user agent is making the request.

    On that line, you will see something like this: 

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

    And there is your operating system.

    Hope it helps

    UPDATE:

    And just in case you’re curious to know what the OS name is for the server hosting your application, you can simply use this:

    <cfset system = CreateObject("java", "java.lang.System").getProperties()>
<cfdump var="#system['os.name']#">
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