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Applications Administration Guide > Ongoing Application Administration Tasks > Adding Additional Web BrowsersIf you need to add a Web browser definition that is not included in the standard Siebel application, you can choose between the following two methods.
Required Browser CapabilitiesFor a browser to work correctly, it must include two capabilities that allow the browser to be identified at run time. The required capabilities are:
These capabilities are part of HTTP standard information and appear in HTTP request headers sent from a browser. For example, a request from a Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 browser sent to a Web application might include the following lines:
In this example, the value for the User-Agent capability would be Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0). Both the User-Agent and Accept capabilities must be included. This is because at run time, the User-Agent is checked to identify the browser. If the User-Agent is not recognized, the values for the Accept parameter in the header are compared to the Accept parameters of the browsers listed in the Web Browser Administration screen, to find the browser with the most closely matching Accept parameters. In addition to the User-Agent and Accept capabilities, if a browser is based on an existing parent browser, it must include the Parent capability. NOTE: Parent browsers frequently do not have the User-Agent and Accept capabilities. This is because parent browsers are intended to serve as containers of other capabilities that can be inherited. If a browser does not have its own User Agent and Accept capabilities, then it is acting as a parent of another browser that has these capabilities. Adding JumpTab Capability for Internet Explorer 5.0If you are running your Siebel application on Internet Explorer 5.0, you need to set the JumpTab capability to True. (If the JumpTab capability is not set, users need to click the back button twice to return to the previous page.)
Adding a Web BrowserWhether you are adding a parent browser or a child browser, the process is similar. However, in the case of a parent browser, you add all detailed components, and in the case of a child browser, you base the browser on an existing browser. NOTE: Although a parent browser may contain the User-Agent and Accept capabilities, it does not have to. If you use parent browsers as templates for child browsers, do not include these two capabilities in the parent browser template.
NOTE: If there is an existing browser that contains most of the appropriate capabilities, you can copy it and then make changes. To do so, in Step 2, click the menu button and choose Copy Record instead of New Record.
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