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servlet finding the browser used...

Posted by Jeff Kinsey on September 04, 2000 at 10:06 AM

The SnoopServlet that comes as part of the JSDK download has an example of getting HTTP header data. The servlet cycles through the request header names and displays their value. What you are looking for is the following:

String browser = request.getHeader("User-Agent");

I found the above on the Java Developers Connection...

> Friends,

> I come from Perl/CGI background and will like to know some of the equivalents iof Perl/CGI in Java Servlets. Specifically, I want to find out what's the browser that the user is using to visit/invoke the servlet. In CGI the browser can be found out by using the environment variable called 'HTTP_USER_AGENT' via call $ENV{'HTTP_USER_AGENT'}. What's it's equivalent in Java Servlet ?

>

Regards,
Salil V Gangal

• And finding the descriptive host ? Salil V Gangal September 04, 2000 at 11:23 AM (2)
  • Do any of these work? Jeff Kinsey September 04, 2000 at 12:22 PM (1)
    • Re: Do any of these work? - Nope Salil V Gangal September 04, 2000 at 12:58 PM (0)