The best way to get the client's OS i believe is through Javascript:
This is what I used.
if ((navigator.userAgent.indexOf("WinNT")>-1) ||
(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Windows NT")>-1))
bOS = "WinNT";
and send the bOS var to your servlet as a param.
The User-Agent may fail in HTTP 1.0 as erik rightly pointed out.
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----- Original Message -----
From: erik morton
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Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 8:30 PM
Subject: Re: Querying Opearting System and version from Browser
use request.getHeader("User-Agent").
Though keep in mind that HTTP 1.0 does not require that this header be
present
so check to see if it is null.
Mohammed Akacem wrote:
> In my Servlet I want to kow which operating system is running on the
> machine I got I request from? how do I get this?
>
> Thanks
> Mohammed
>
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