Can an .htaccess detect if the browser has a javascript enable or disable?

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Can an htaccess could detect a browser if it's javascript enable or disabled and write a certain condition if javascript is disbled?

Like this

if(js)

DirectoryIndex ../locnfo/jsenable.php else

DirectoryIndex ../locnfo/jsdisable.php

why you tagged this question with PHP?

Yanick Rochon
– Yanick Rochon

2011-03-24 05:42:36 +00:00
Commented Mar 24, 2011 at 5:42 — Yanick Rochon
– Yanick Rochon, Commented Mar 24, 2011 at 5:42

Yanick Rochon · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-24 05:40:48Z

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This has to be done on the client side, it cannot be detected elsewhere. The best thing I would suggest is to have something like

<script type="text/javascript">
   document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="path/to/js"></script>');
</script>

so the file is only included if Javascript is enabled.

answered Mar 24, 2011 at 5:40

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:19:53Z

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No, an .htaccess file cannot do such a thing : an .htaccess file configures how Apache (server) behaves -- while Javascript is something that's on the client-side (browser).

If you want to detect whether Javascript is enabled or not, you'll have to do that on the client-side.
About that, here are a couple of questions / answers that might help :

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answered Mar 24, 2011 at 5:39

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