Request.Browser.Version = Wrong version in Netscape

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Agent707

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Weird problem. I'm trying to write a function to determine what Browser and version clients are using.

Using HttpBrowserCapabilities
...pseudo code
Visual Basic: 
Dim bc As HttpBrowserCapabilities
bc = Request.Browser
Response.Write(bc.Browser & " " bc.Version)
Works fine on IE. Show "IE 6" or "IE 5.5"...etc.

Even works on Netscape 6.2. Shows "Netscape 6.2"

Here's the Problem. On versions of Netscape 7 or greater, it shows the version as 5.0
"Netscape 5.0"

I've tested it with 3 newer version.
7.2, 8.0 and 8.1 They all show "5.0"

Even if I try to use the .Majorversion + .Minorversion. Same thing.

When I pull the server vars for HTTP_USER_AGENT for each browser type, I get this.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 (ax)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050603 Netscape/8.0.2

Note: The first one returns the correct version (6.2) in my .Net app, where the second and third are returning the Mozilla version (5.0)

Anyone have any ideas how I can resolve this?
 
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