identify enterprise browser via Javascript

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H Hagen Munsch 2 years 8 months ago
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Hello Community

I am building a web-page (.NET Core Razorpage) that needs to scan barcodes.
When running it on a zebra device, I can embed the file ebapi-modules.js via

and all works well.

But I need the option to run the page on a mobile and use the camera to scan, or let the user use the UI to enter the options vie Buttons ect.
But when I run the page on a non-enterprise-browser, the embedding of the ebapi-modules.js- file produces a JS-Error, resulting from a function iside this file.

So I need to make sure that this file is only embedded, when running in enterprise browser. Reading the user-agent from the header gives me no solution, because I get nothing to identify the enterprise browser there.

So has anyone already solved this problem and can hive me some solution?

I attached the data I get from the navigator variable in a jpg.

Thank you for your help.

Greetings, Hagen

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J James Swinton-Bland

Hi,

I'm not sure on how to identify the browser reliably via JavaScript, though the accepted solution here may help narrow it down via duck-typing.

As a work-around, perhaps you could either check for errors after embedding the .js file & reload the page without it if there is any issues? Or if the user wants to use a built-in scanner, you could add an additional button that would re-load the page with the required .js files?

 

H Hagen Munsch

Hi James

Thank you very much for your comment.

I actually have tried to react on the exception as an alternative solution.
Because the function is called within the included file, I put a try - catch around the whole compressed code inside the file and this supressed the error.
I think this is really the best solution, as trying to identify the used browser in this case is rather too error-prone.

J James Swinton-Bland

Sounds like a reasonable work-around, thanks for updating the thread :)

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