Trying to get the user-agent from request in asp.net web api self host

Question

I\'m trying to get the user-agent in a web api self host and I\'m either doing it wrong, or the web api itself is altering the user agent string.

I\'ve tried using sever

Answer 1

The answer is simple try the following. It's shorter and less likely to break.

String userAgent;
userAgent = Request.UserAgent;

It will give you a string similar to this one.

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/6.0)

Documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.httprequest.useragent.aspx?cs-save-lang=1&cs-lang=csharp#code-snippet-2