How to detect device information like OS, browser, device name etc. in asp.net web api?

Question

I am creating a ASP.NET Web API. I want to detect device information of consumer of my web service. Currently, I am trying to use Request.Headers.UserAgent to get device related information.

public void XYZ(int a, int b)
{            
        var x = Request.Headers.UserAgent;
}

But unable to get the proper information.

Vishnu Prasad V · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-12 09:04:30Z

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You can use HttpBrowserCapabilities class for this in ASP.NET. Just get the Browser property of the Request you receive.

HttpBrowserCapabilities capability= Request.Browser;
var BrowserName = capability.Browser;
var version = capability.Version;
var platform = capability.Platform;

HttpBrowserCapabilities belongs to System.Web namespace.

Hope this helps.

answered Apr 12, 2016 at 9:04

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user1780538 Over a year ago

Request.Browser is not available in ASP.NET Web API application. I think you are talking about a ASP.NET Web Application. I want to detect consumer's device information in my ASP.NET Web API application.

Anup Sharma · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-21 14:15:19Z

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Request.Headers["User-Agent"]

Provides you the user agent information. Typically the value looks like:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.142 Safari/537.36

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themattkellyshow · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-12 09:03:26Z

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Here you are sir.

public static void Main(string[] args)
{
    IRuntimeEnvironment runtime = PlatformServices.Default.Runtime;
    IApplicationEnvironment env = PlatformServices.Default.Application;
    Console.WriteLine($@"
IApplicationEnvironment:
        Base Path:      {env.ApplicationBasePath}
        App Name:       {env.ApplicationName}
        App Version:    {env.ApplicationVersion}
        Runtime:        {env.RuntimeFramework}
IRuntimeEnvironment:
        OS:             {runtime.OperatingSystem}
        OS Version:     {runtime.OperatingSystemVersion}
        Architecture:   {runtime.RuntimeArchitecture}
        Path:           {runtime.RuntimePath}
        Type:           {runtime.RuntimeType}
        Version:        {runtime.RuntimeVersion}");
}

answered Apr 12, 2016 at 9:03

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user1780538 Over a year ago

I need to detect device information (Consumer/Requestor of my Web API) in a ASP.NET Web API not in a Console Application.

stuartd Over a year ago

@user1780538 although this looks like a console app, it is in fact how to access the variables in a .Net Core Web API project.

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