Detecting IE 6.0.2600.0000

[eewald]

How would I detect a particular version of IE.. namely IE 6.0.2600.0000? Is there a way to do this?

Much thanks in advance.

[khalidali63]

It will be interesting to see if some one has a javascript solution,
because traditional
navigator.userAgent,appVersion and appName all return the 6.0 for IE 6..

Khalid

[eewald]

Indeed..

Its an interesting problem.. I try to provide a failover if a browser does not have the JVM. This has worked very well except on this particular version of IE 6.0 that was shipped with XP and does not include the Microsoft JVM. I am getting complaints that on these machines they are being redirected to the microsoft JVM download page(which is now nonexistent) instead of being served my failover. I have detection in place for determining if a browser has the JVM, but the redirection is taking place before that happens. I was thinking that maybe IE was still telling Javascript that the JVM was installed and then sending it to get it. I figured I could try to detect the exact version of the browser to catch the error.

Maybe my question is, has anyone heard of this happening and how can I get around it?

[khalidali63]

Just otta curiousity.....

If you can detect the IE JVM then how come it can take over at that point and redirect automatically,it sounds like it is not finding the JVM.Make sure your JVM detection code is executing properly.
There must be some ActiveX COntrol to take care of this.

Cheers

Khalid

[eewald]

I can verify that the detection code is working when you disable the JVM.. but since you can't actually take it off a machine I'm not sure what it does then. Also none of my code is redirecting the user to the Microsoft download page.. how does that happen? I figured that might be a special "bonus" of that version.

THis is the code I am using for the JVM detection.. maybe it isn't as easy as it appears.

n=navigator;
var jOn=false;
jOn=n.javaEnabled();

if (jOn)
{
//do the stuff
}
else {
//failover
}

Thanks for the replies!