How can I detect whether user accessed a website using ipad or machine?

Question

I need to write two separate view section for users; one for those who access the website using iPad and those accessing otherwise.

I know it is possible in JavaScript, but I need to identify the device using Java.

I am using struts2 and hibernate in my project.

You are better off looking to CSS for this type of functionality. E.G. see [this thread](http://stackoverflow.com/q/6370690/418556). The `User-Agent` string is not only notoriously unreliable, but once you've figured the typical string for an iPad, you realize that only covers ..40%(?) of your tablet users, who might otherwise be using an Android or Linux (or..) based tablet. — Andrew Thompson, Apr 19 '12 at 08:53

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 19 '12 at 08:42

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You can read the "User-Agent" header the client sends.

answered Apr 19 '12 at 08:42

Johni

When i detect user-agent and it get a long string like "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0 ", if it is mozilla and is crome another long message like "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.162 Safari/535.19" and if ipad another long message etc, from this how can i identify which is i am using to access the website? – user359187 Apr 20 '12 at 06:47
That would be another question. Regular expressions come to mind. – Quaternion Apr 23 '12 at 08:26

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