Re: user agent string database

["Dave Ferguson" <gmdavef () gmail com>]

"sbcydsl" looks like the AT&T (formerly SBC) Yahoo-branded browser for
DSL customers.  And "YPC" is probably Yahoo Parental Controls.  Not
too exciting.  sorry

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Robin Wood <dninja () gmail com> wrote:
> 2008/10/3 Serg B <sergeslists () gmail com>:
> > http://www.pgts.com.au/pgtsj/pgtsj0208c.html
> Close but not quiet, first, looking at the section with MSIE, it was
> last updated "03-Apr-2005 18:06 GMT", second, what I'm after is a
> breakdown of the whole string, not just what the browser is, so from:
>
> Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; YPC 3.0.3; sbcydsl
> 3.12; FunWebProducts; Alexa Toolbar)
>
> What is sbcydsl 3.12? I'm thinking of putting a site together which
> breaks the string down into its component parts and reports back on
> each of them if it knows, so for this you'd get:
>
> MSIE 6.0 = IE 6
> Windows NT 5.0 = windows 2000
> YPC 3.0.3 = Don't know
> etc
>
> Does anyone think this would be useful? I can easily write a site to
> do this which will accept new data, the only problem will be
> populating it, there I would need your help.
>
> Robin
>
>
> > Enjoy
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Robin Wood <dninja () gmail com> wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > Can anyone recommend a good, up-to-date, searchable UA database? I've
> > > just googled a few but the ones I've found have either been out of
> > > date or just long lists of known ones with no real descriptions of
> > > what they relate to.
> > >
> > > I'm after something that will take a string such as:
> > >
> > > "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; FunWebProducts;
> > > .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)"
> > >
> > > and suggest what browser, OS, service pack/patch level and what extras
> > > they have installed. I know that it can't be 100% accurate and some
> > > parts are obvious (e.g. browser) but it would be nice to just throw
> > > the string into something and have a description come back.
> > >
> > > If it doesn't exist, would anyone else find it useful? Building a
> > > system to do this wouldn't be too hard, it would be populating it that
> > > would take some time and effort.
> > >
> > > Robin
> > >
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