org.apache.commons.http
Class BrowserDetector

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.commons.http.BrowserDetector

public class BrowserDetector
extends java.lang.Object

This class parses the user agent string and sets javasciptOK and cssOK following the rules described below. If you want to check for specific browsers/versions then use this class to parse the user agent string and use the accessor methods in this class. JavaScriptOK means that the browser understands JavaScript on the same level the Navigator 3 does. Specifically, it can use named images. This allows easier rollovers. If a browser doesn't do this (Nav 2 or MSIE 3), then we just assume it can't do any JavaScript. Referencing images by load order is too hard to maintain. CSSOK is kind of sketchy in that Nav 4 and MSIE work differently, but they do seem to have most of the functionality. MSIE 4 for the Mac has buggy CSS support, so we let it do JavaScript, but no CSS. Ported from Leon's PHP code at http://www.working-dogs.com/freetrade by Frank.

Version:

$Id: BrowserDetector.java,v 1.1 2005/04/15 08:27:03 gregoryyy Exp $

Author:

Frank Y. Kim, Leon Atkisnon, Chris Mospaw, Benjamin Elijah Griffin

Constructor Summary

BrowserDetector(java.lang.String userAgentString)
Constructor used to initialize this class.

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getBrowserName() The browser name specified in the user agent string.
java.lang.String	getBrowserPlatform() The browser platform specified in the user agent string.
float	getBrowserVersion() The browser version specified in the user agent string.
java.lang.String	getUserAgentString() The user agent string for this class.
boolean	isCssOK() Whether or not CSS works in this browser.
boolean	isFileUploadOK() Whether or not file upload works in this browser.
boolean	isJavascriptOK() Whether or not Javascript works in this browser.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

BrowserDetector

public BrowserDetector(java.lang.String userAgentString)

Constructor used to initialize this class.

Parameters:

userAgentString - A String with the user agent field.

Method Detail

isCssOK

public boolean isCssOK()

Whether or not CSS works in this browser.

Returns:

True if CSS works in this browser.

isFileUploadOK

public boolean isFileUploadOK()

Whether or not file upload works in this browser.

Returns:

True if file upload works in this browser.

isJavascriptOK

public boolean isJavascriptOK()

Whether or not Javascript works in this browser.

Returns:

True if Javascript works in this browser.

getBrowserName

public java.lang.String getBrowserName()

The browser name specified in the user agent string.

Returns:

A String with the browser name.

getBrowserPlatform

public java.lang.String getBrowserPlatform()

The browser platform specified in the user agent string.

Returns:

A String with the browser platform.

getBrowserVersion

public float getBrowserVersion()

The browser version specified in the user agent string.

Returns:

A String with the browser version.

getUserAgentString

public java.lang.String getUserAgentString()

The user agent string for this class.

Returns:

A String with the user agent.