24704 - OS field in bugzilla doesn't pick up Windows NT

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 21131

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, defect, P3)

Description

[Phil Peterson]

The user-agent for mozilla on NT seems to be:

Mozilla/5.0 [en-US] (Windows_NT; I)

but when I file bugs, the OS field always says "other".

Comment 1

[Phil Peterson]

I notice that 4.x uses "WinNT" rather than "Windows_NT". So maybe the real bug 
is that the user-agent is wrong?

Comment 2

[Sean Richardson]

This is looking like a DUP of either bug 21131, "user agent string breaks 
bugzilla's os/platform input feature", ASSIGNED, M14, fix in hand, OR
bug 23583, "Platform and OS not detected", depending on whether you want to
wait for Mozilla to start sending a User Agent string more like 4.x's
or arrange for Bugzilla to handle more variations, "just in case".

Quoting from a webserver log:
   "Mozilla/4.7 [en] (WinNT; I)"
   "Mozilla/5.0 [en-US] (Windows_NT; I)"

Comment 3

[Phil Peterson]

cc'ing wtc since I believe the OS string is picked up from NSPR.

Comment 4

[Wan-Teh Chang]

PR_GetSystemInfo(PR_SI_SYSNAME) returns "Windows_NT",
"Windows_98", and "Windows_95" (see bug #15738).  You
can map these strings to the desired OS names for your
application, e.g.,
    "Windows_NT" ==> "WinNT".

Comment 5

[Phil Peterson]

Warren, should necko be doing this mapping?

Comment 6

[Wan-Teh Chang]

It is worth considering to change PR_GetSystemInfo
to return the exact OS names that Mozilla uses,
if Mozilla's OS names are general enough.  Is there
a list?

However, NSPR is in code freeze for the 4.0 release.
So I'm not sure if we'll be able to get this change
in.  Once 4.0 is released, we won't be able to change
this until 5.0.

Comment 7

[Terry Weissman]

[e-mail] is the new owner of Bugzilla and Bonsai.  (For details,
see my posting in netscape.public.mozilla.webtools,
news://news.mozilla.org/38F5D90D.F40E8C1A%40geocast.com .)

Comment 8

[Chris Yeh]

is this still an issue? or is this resolved now?

Comment 9

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

moving to real milestones...

Comment 10

[Phil Peterson]

Not a problem anymore. Sean's probably right that it was a dup of bug 21131.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 21131 ***

Comment 11

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

V.

Comment 12

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

moving to Bugzilla product
reassign to default owner/qa for INVALID/WONTFIX/WORKSFORME/DUPLICATE