Name
BrowserMatch
Synopsis
BrowserMatch
regex
var
[=value
] var
[=value
] ...
Description
[server config]
Sets environment variables based on the client’s browser type.
If the User-Agent
HTTP header matches the regular
expression specified by regex, set one or more environment
variables as follows:
-
var
The environment variable is defined and given the value of 1.
-
!var
The environment variable is deleted.
-
var=value
The environment variable is set to an initial value.
Here is an example of how to locate various browsers. The first
sets compatible
if the client is connecting with Versions
2 through 4 of Netscape. The second sets microsoft
if
Internet Explorer is detected:
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/[2-4] compatible !microsoft BrowserMatch MSIE microsoft
(Apache 1.3 or later)
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