Thanks for the reply Christain. > On the server side, you have to live with what you get > from the request.
I think were cool with that. This is currently used by our helpdesk team alone for diagnostics for trouble tickets. None of our applications make assumptions based on snooping. > That is, you can evaluate the headers, > from where the request came from, which protocol was > used, what MIME types are accepted and so on. Still, > you can't get details about the client configuration > beyond what you can tell from that information. > Additional information may be available via JavaScript, > and BrowserHawk itself seems to make extended use > of it. Cool. Thanks for the info. I had not thought to research Javascript. I'll take this thread to that list. > Just to note, when testing the link given the > information proved to be not too reliable.Most > tests (Konqueror 3.1, SuSE Linux 9.0, Sun Java > 1.4.2, Applets accepted, JavaScript enabled, > Acrobat Reader 5 installed; I have a P4, 512MB > of RAM and hdb has 120GB, 77% free) failed > with my current setup. Still, none of the latter > got detected. Therefore, I wouldn't rely on > BrowserHawk or the like. Your point is duely noted. At the same time, 99.9% of the browsers will be IE. That might give us more rope to hang ourselves. > There already is such a page in the > standard Servlet demos... I'd love to see that. Is that on the Sun site? On the Oreilly site? Any links would be appreciated. > and getting > any information beyond that is a really > hard job, I guess. And yet browserhawk is doing something. It may only be relyable on Windows. If so, that is acceptable for this current version of our project. > Mind: snooping the > concrete user's system configuration > was not part of the deal when they > invented HTTP. Duly noted. =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant archives, FAQs and Forums on JSPs can be found at: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://forums.java.sun.com http://www.jspinsider.com
