Hehe, System.getenv() wouldn't do you much good anyways, this isn't CGI :)
The user agent info is a header sent by the client by the name of
"user-agent", it's a hack in the CGI spec to rename it,
so, in a servlet you would do:
String agent = request.getHeader("user-agent");
Easy enough? (CGI provides nothing more than this either) :)
/Magnus Stenman
Orion WebServer - http://orion.evermind.net
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Sent: den 8 maj 1999 04:53
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Subject: CGI Environment Variables
Hello,
I have been developing servlets for some time and have come accross the
need for an environment variable not provided
with a get... method (i.e. getQueryString) in the HTTPRequest object. I
would like to obtain HTTP_USER_AGENT so I know the
browser the user is using. I know I can use the System.getenv method but I
don't want to use a depreciated method.
Does the Servlet API provide a general way of accessing a specific web
server/browsers environment variables or do we
only have access to what they provide has methods in the Request object?
I would appreciate help.
Thank you in advance.
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