How to detect user agent in WCF web service

Question

How can I detect the user agent in a web service? My web service is implemented using a WCF webservice with basicHTTPBinding. It will be a post from some SOAP clients. I wis

Answer 1

You can use also:

WebOperationContext.Current.IncomingRequest.UserAgent

Answer 2

What a totally unhelpful response!

This is not a trivial task. Yes it is obviously possible to get te user-agent string but how does one actually do it? I spent 2 hours checking google and so on but found the answer buried in MSDN documentation. In Visual Studio, from within a WebMethod try

this.Context.Request.UserAgent

That should do it!

Answer 3

User-Agent is a standard HTTP header. It'll be available to your web service just like it's available to anything CGI-like.

Did you even bother searching for this before posting your question? There must be millions of hits for it on Google.

Answer 4

There is another way to get the user agent without enabling ASP.NET compatibility in web.config:

string userAgent = WebOperationContext.Current.IncomingRequest.Headers["User-Agent"];

Answer 5

You can read user agent from the HttpContext.Current.Request object if you enable ASP.NET compatibility in web.config: