Re: [libreoffice-website] web site download install type error

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 2:36 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press
Productions <webmaster@krackedpress.com> wrote:
> On 11/11/2011 06:52 AM, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> > [...]
> > You can check on this page what the values your browser reports are:
> > http://jsfiddle.net/ZZRSk/embedded/result/
> >
> > If you think that any info can be used to derive "ah, this is a
> > deb-user", then please share the results :-)
> [...]
>  It just was when I went to that page with OSs that were Ubuntu
> 11.xx based.
>
> I wonder if Firefox 4.x and up could be the issue?  I use 3.x.x with Ubuntu
> 10.xx and the same for Windows.  I do not like the new look for FF and I
> avoid it if possible.  Ubuntu/Mint 11.xx used FF 4.x.x as its default.

Once again: The info is queried using javascript, and what you get of
course depends on the browser, as the browser is who gives the reply.
And the distribution can be obtained/guessed from the userAgent string
at best. But if it is a vanilla, unmodified string, you cannot have
any informatin to judge, and hence you need to choose a default.

> Could you add to the list Linux Mint as a detected value for DEBs?

Does the information shown on the jsfiddle page allow to derive that
it is linux Mint that is being used?

> Also, I ran that browser detail link and it only showed that the OS was
> Linux, not Ubuntu, Mint, DEB or RPM based.

So - how would you determine that it is linux mint? If you know a way, share it.
Once it is know that mint is used, the debs can be chosen.

But the problem is that you cannot tell whether the user is running
mint, fedora, debian, mandriva, mageia, .... unless there is a hint in
the useragent string. And historically only debian and ubuntu who
copied many things from debian did have a modified useragent string.

Again: If you know a way to derive information about the
distro/deb/rpm by means of javascript, then please share it and it
will be added.

ciao
Christian

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