LimitBrowsers
The following explains how to limit browser support to only recent versions of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari (+ Mobile Safari and Palm Pre).
## # Supported browsers ## modern_browser gecko 1.9; # note that Safari related directives match # Chrome, Mobile Safari, Palm Pre and other WebKit-based browsers here, too, thanks # to all of them using almost identical User-Agent strings modern_browser safari 3.0; modern_browser safari 3.1; modern_browser safari 3.2; modern_browser safari 4.0; modern_browser msie 7.0; modern_browser msie 8.0; modern_browser unlisted; ## # Non-supported browsers ## ancient_browser msie 4.0; ancient_browser msie 5.0; ancient_browser msie 5.5; ancient_browser msie 6.0; # Here is how one can disable support of a specific browser ancient_browser opera 7; ancient_browser opera 8; ancient_browser opera 9; ancient_browser opera 10; ancient_browser konqueror 3; ancient_browser konqueror 4; ancient_browser Links Lynx Netscape4; # # Now, to the fun part. If we perform a rewrite on every # request here, images won't be displayed, so we have to # do some extra work besides just # # if ($ancient_browser){ # rewrite ^ /unsupported_browser.html; # break; # } set $unsupported_browser_rewrite do_not_perform; if ($ancient_browser){ set $unsupported_browser_rewrite perform; } if ($uri !~* /\.(jpeg|jpg|png|ico|gif|js|css)$/) { set $unsupported_browser_rewrite do_not_perform; } if ($unsupported_browser_rewrite = perform){ rewrite ^ /unsupported_browser.html; break; }