Restricting access to set browsers

Original Message

Name: Daveco
Date: January 9, 2007 at 04:55:28 Pacific
Subject: Restricting access to set browsers
OS: Windows XP
CPU/Ram: 512MB RAM
Model/Manufacturer: Dell Dimension 5000

Comment:

Greetings all,
My knowledge of computing is fairly limited, so feel free to treat me as a beginner.
I am looking for a way to restrict access to a website to a certain browser(s). IE. Accessible by Internet Explorer, but not via Firefox.
Could this be done by writing a query or IF statement that determined whether a certain browser(s) were being used or not, and if not- being redirected?
My main reason to believe this is possible is that www.officelive.com will only allow users to register if they are using IE.
Any help that you can muster would be greatly appreciated!
Regards,
Daveco

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Response Number 1

Name: Michael J (by mjdamato)
Date: January 9, 2007 at 08:22:41 Pacific
Subject: Restricting access to set browsers

Reply: (edit)

What type of environment are you developing in? Are you using any server-side languages such as PHP, ASP, etc?
If not, you can use Javascript, but it will only work if the user has Javascript enabled. Many free scripts available. Just do a search for "Javascript browser detect" on google.
Michael J

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Response Number 2

Name: Daveco
Date: January 9, 2007 at 09:21:25 Pacific
Subject: Restricting access to set browsers

Reply: (edit)

PHP in all likelyhood. Isn't ASP the microsoft "version" of PHP?
Thanks for your help.

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Response Number 3

Name: Bob (by BigBob)
Date: January 9, 2007 at 11:42:57 Pacific
Subject: Restricting access to set browsers

Reply: (edit)

You could try this;
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">
if(navigator.appName != "Microsoft Internet Explorer")

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Response Number 4

Name: Michael J (by mjdamato)
Date: January 9, 2007 at 13:04:42 Pacific
Subject: Restricting access to set browsers

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If you are using PHP you could look into the get_browser() function. here's the manual: http://us3.php.net/function.get-bro...
Michael J

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Response Number 5

Name: Benjamin78
Date: January 21, 2007 at 09:37:32 Pacific
Subject: Restricting access to set browsers

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