Internet Explorer for Windows CE is Mozilla!?

[mike at bilow.com (Michael Bilow)]

As noted, all releases of MSIE claim to be Mozilla and always have.  You
can actually change this at will, as the User-Agent strings is simply a
literal value in the system registry.

If you are trying to detect a wireless browser, you really have to do some
digging.  WAP and pre-WAP (HDML) browsers will usually indicate their
preferences properly with the Accept header, which makes things easier.  
However, some ultraportable browsers want real HTML, and MSIE for CE is in
this class, and you have to scan for "Windows CE" in the User-Agent.  The
Palm VII/VIIx browser presents the keyword "Elaine" in the User-Agent.

-- Mike


On 2001-08-15 at 21:55 -0400, Frank J. Ramsay wrote:

> I've been playing with my IPAQ tonight and noticed this in my
> apache access.log file.  I'm useing IE to access these files.
> 
> 192.168.1.30 - - [07/Aug/2001:21:36:39 -0400] "GET /manual/index.html
> HTTP/1.1" 200 5557 "http://192.168.1.101/"; "Mozilla/2.0 (compatible;
> MSIE 3.02; Windows CE; 240x320)"
> 
> So, if I read this right the IE on wince is mozilla, and old release 
> but mozilla none the less.
> 
> I wonder if the folks at www.mozilla.org know about this?

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