How to detect the user OS/browser info in web(using php, js, html)?

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We make two version setup packages, win-32.msi and win-64.msi, and put them to our website for user to download.

But I just want to using one web link. When user using windows-32bit OS to click the link, he would get the win-32.msi, using windows-64-bit OS would get win-64.msi.

We use php, js, html in our web code, setting in apache.

There was a method we used before: browsercap.ini. But we found IE10 browser in win8-64bit give us win8-32bit information which was wrong.

So are there any other solutions?

please check link: stackoverflow.com/questions/17641454/… may be this will help you — avinash
– avinash, Commented Oct 16, 2013 at 6:04
Thanks a lot. I want to know the OS bit version, 32 or 64. browsercap.ini has the full information. It worked well at almost time, but win8-64 IE10 would be wrong.. — Yifan Wang
– Yifan Wang, Commented Oct 16, 2013 at 6:15

Gary Chapman · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-16 06:05:05Z

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In Javascript you can use the navigator object to get some info about the local system:

console.log(navigator.appVersion);

On my system this yields:

5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/30.0.1599.69 Safari/537.36

You can then parse this to work out where to send the user.

answered Oct 16, 2013 at 6:05

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Qben · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-16 07:05:17Z

As an alternative you can do this in Apache as well by using mod_rewrite and looking at the HTTP_USER_AGENT variable. More information about this can be found in the mod_rewrite documentation.

Something like this could work:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (WOW64|OtherMatch)
RewriteRule ^(/path/to/dl-packages)/win-32.msi $1/win-64.msi [R,L]

This is more to show the basic consept and you might want to fine tune the (WOW64|OtherMatch) string that should match the 64bit clients, not sure if WOW64 will match all Windows 64 bit browsers. Also I am matching the URL to the win-32.msi package in my RewriteRule that would be the default package, and if a 64bit client try to get it it will be redirected to the 64 bit version instead. Depending on your site, you might want to handle this differently.

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