Operating System from User-Agent HTTP Header

C. Dragon 76 picture C. Dragon 76 · Oct 23, 2008 · Viewed 78.4k times · Source

Is there a good, up-to-date listing anywhere that maps User-Agent HTTP Header strings --> operating systems?

Answer

Nescio picture Nescio · Oct 23, 2008

Here's a quick list... let me know if I missed one you are interested in.

http://www.geekpedia.com/code47_Detect-operating-system-from-user-agent-string.html:

// Match user agent string with operating systems
Windows 3.11 => Win16,
Windows 95 => (Windows 95)|(Win95)|(Windows_95),
Windows 98 => (Windows 98)|(Win98),
Windows 2000 => (Windows NT 5.0)|(Windows 2000),
Windows XP => (Windows NT 5.1)|(Windows XP),
Windows Server 2003 => (Windows NT 5.2),
Windows Vista => (Windows NT 6.0),
Windows 7 => (Windows NT 6.1),
Windows 8 => (Windows NT 6.2),
Windows 10 => (Windows NT 10.0),
Windows NT 4.0 => (Windows NT 4.0)|(WinNT4.0)|(WinNT)|(Windows NT),
Windows ME => Windows ME,
Open BSD => OpenBSD,
Sun OS => SunOS,
Linux => (Linux)|(X11),
Mac OS => (Mac_PowerPC)|(Macintosh),
QNX => QNX,
BeOS => BeOS,
OS/2 => OS/2,
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