2015-12-06

ASP.NET browser capabilities caching gotcha

If you're doing ASP.NET (pre-vNext) development and use browser capabilities checking (e.g. Request.Browser), add the following to your config file:

<browserCaps userAgentCacheKeyLength="256" />

You'll thank me later.
In short, ASP.NET caches capabilities based on first N characters of a user agent string, where N is 64 by default. After a "mobile" Google bot visits your site (with user agent of "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 8_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Mobile/12F70 Safari/600.1.4 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)") your iPhone users will be considered as crawlers, which is probably not what you want.

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  2. Thank you very much, this helped me a lot.

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