browscap.csv vs browscap.xml

[Omer van der Horst Jansen]

I've been using the browscap.xml file to identify the browsers that are being used to visit our sites. Lately I'm having trouble matching a lot of browsers and I think it's because not all of the patterns are included in the XML file.

For example, I'm trying to match this user agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 9_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/601.1.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0 Mobile/13B143 Safari/601.1

According to the user agent lookup on the website, this matches this browser name pattern:

mozilla/5.0*(iphone*cpu iphone os 9?1* like mac os x*)*applewebkit/*(*khtml, like gecko*)*version/9.0*safari/*

This pattern exists in browscap.csv (line 112601 in version 6011). But the same pattern doesn't exist in the equivalent browscap.xml file so my code fails to find a matching pattern.

The CSV file has 137403 entries (wc -l browscap.csv, minus header line) and the XML file has 51122 entries (grep -c \<browscapitem browscap.xml).

Is this a bug? Or am I misunderstanding how the XML file should be used, and should I start using the CSV file instead? I'm using Go (golang) so the INI file isn't as easy to work with.

Thanks & happy holidays,

Omer

[James Titcumb]

I believe we have started removing some entries from the XML file as it was growing extremely large (the XML tags add a huge amount of overhead).

If the files available from browscap.org aren't sufficient, you can always run the build script from https://github.com/browscap/browscap and configure the generated XML to include the full list of definitions.

Hope that helps

Thanks

James

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[James Titcumb]

FYI, you would need to modify the filter used for the XML definition in the following file:

https://github.com/browscap/browscap/blob/master/src/Browscap/Writer/Factory/FullCollectionFactory.php

Modify the "$xmlWriter" definition to use the "$fullFilter" instead of "$stdFilter", and I'd probably comment out the rest of the writers if you're not interested in them :)

Thanks

James

[Omer van der Horst Jansen]

Thanks James! I've changed my code to use the CSV file.

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