regarding HTTP_USER_AGENT

Question

Have a perl CGI script that display the CGI environment variable. In IE8 getting the HTTP_USER_AGENT Value for IE 8 as MSIE 7.0. Why it's not displaying MSIE 8.0?

HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1;
WOW64; Trident/4.0; GTB7.5; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR
3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.3)

If it's a perl script, why are you tagging the question PHP? — Mark Baker, Nov 03 '13 at 23:57
Has nothing to do with Perl either. Perl is just repeating the web server which is just repeating the browser. — ikegami, Nov 03 '13 at 23:58

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 04 '13 at 00:04

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The browser is probably in Compatibility View mode. Click the button outlined in the image below (looks like a page ripped in half, next to the reload button) to disable it.

Compatibility View button

answered Nov 04 '13 at 00:04

regarding HTTP_USER_AGENT

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