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Created October 31, 2011 01:28
Mobile device detection in Nginx with just 7 lines of configuration
### Testing if the client is a mobile or a desktop.
### The selection is based on the usual UA strings for desktop browsers.
## Testing a user agent using a method that reverts the logic of the
## UA detection. Inspired by notnotmobile.appspot.com.
map $http_user_agent $is_desktop {
default 0;
~*linux.*android|windows\s+(?:ce|phone) 0; # exceptions to the rule
~*spider|crawl|slurp|bot 1; # bots
~*windows|linux|os\s+x\s*[\d\._]+|solaris|bsd 1; # OSes
// ----------------------------------------------------------
// A short snippet for detecting versions of IE in JavaScript
// without resorting to user-agent sniffing
// ----------------------------------------------------------
// If you're not in IE (or IE version is less than 5) then:
// ie === undefined
// If you're in IE (>=5) then you can determine which version:
// ie === 7; // IE7
// Thus, to detect IE:
// if (ie) {}