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Parse::HTTP::UserAgent implements a rules-based parser and tries to identify
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MSIE, FireFox, Opera, Safari & Chrome first. It then tries to identify Mozilla,
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Netscape, Robots and the rest will be tried with a generic parser. There is also
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a structure dumper, useful for debugging.
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User agent strings are a complete mess since there is no standard format for
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them. They can be in various formats and can include more or less information
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depending on the vendor's (or the user's) choice. Also, it is not dependable
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since it is some arbitrary identification string. Any user agent can fake
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another. So, why deal with such a useless mess? You may want to see the choice
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of your visitors and can get some reliable data (even if some are fake) and
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generate some nice charts out of them or just want to send an HttpOnly cookie if
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the user agent seems to support it (and send a normal one if this is not the
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case). However, browser sniffing for client-side coding is considered a bad
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habit.
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WWW: https://metacpan.org/release/Parse-HTTP-UserAgent
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