I'm using JSP, Servlet to develop my web application.
I want to get client information such as: operation system, browser, resolution, ... whenever a client is using my website.
I'm using JSP, Servlet to develop my web application.
I want to get client information such as: operation system, browser, resolution, ... whenever a client is using my website.
You can use browscap-java to get browser's information.
For Example:
UserAgentParser parser = new UserAgentService().loadParser(Arrays.asList(BrowsCapField.BROWSER));
Capabilities capabilities = parser.parse(user_agent);
String browser = capabilities.getBrowser();
Here's my code that works, as of today, with some of the latest browsers.
Naturally, it will break as User-Agent's evolve, but it's simple, and easy to fix.
String userAgent = "Unknown";
String osType = "Unknown";
String osVersion = "Unknown";
String browserType = "Unknown";
String browserVersion = "Unknown";
String deviceType = "Unknown";
try {
userAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.103 Safari/537.36 OPR/60.0.3255.165";
//userAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0";
//userAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.100 Safari/537.36";
//userAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.140 Safari/537.36 Edge/17.17134";
//userAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 12_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.1.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1";
boolean exceptionTest = false;
if(exceptionTest) throw new Exception("EXCEPTION TEST");
if (userAgent.indexOf("Windows NT") >= 0) {
osType = "Windows";
osVersion = userAgent.substring(userAgent.indexOf("Windows NT ")+11, userAgent.indexOf(";"));
} else if (userAgent.indexOf("Mac OS") >= 0) {
osType = "Mac";
osVersion = userAgent.substring(userAgent.indexOf("Mac OS ")+7, userAgent.indexOf(")"));
if(userAgent.indexOf("iPhone") >= 0) {
deviceType = "iPhone";
} else if(userAgent.indexOf("iPad") >= 0) {
deviceType = "iPad";
}
} else if (userAgent.indexOf("X11") >= 0) {
osType = "Unix";
osVersion = "Unknown";
} else if (userAgent.indexOf("android") >= 0) {
osType = "Android";
osVersion = "Unknown";
}
logger.trace("end of os section");
if (userAgent.contains("Edge/")) {
browserType = "Edge";
browserVersion = userAgent.substring(userAgent.indexOf("Edge")).split("/")[1];
} else if (userAgent.contains("Safari/") && userAgent.contains("Version/")) {
browserType = "Safari";
browserVersion = userAgent.substring(userAgent.indexOf("Version/")+8).split(" ")[0];
} else if (userAgent.contains("OPR/") || userAgent.contains("Opera/")) {
browserType = "Opera";
browserVersion = userAgent.substring(userAgent.indexOf("OPR")).split("/")[1];
} else if (userAgent.contains("Chrome/")) {
browserType = "Chrome";
browserVersion = userAgent.substring(userAgent.indexOf("Chrome")).split("/")[1];
browserVersion = browserVersion.split(" ")[0];
} else if (userAgent.contains("Firefox/")) {
browserType = "Firefox";
browserVersion = userAgent.substring(userAgent.indexOf("Firefox")).split("/")[1];
}
logger.trace("end of browser section");
} catch (Exception ex) {
logger.error("ERROR: " +ex);
}
logger.debug(
"\n userAgent: " + userAgent
+ "\n osType: " + osType
+ "\n osVersion: " + osVersion
+ "\n browserType: " + browserType
+ "\n browserVersion: " + browserVersion
+ "\n deviceType: " + deviceType
);
Logger Output:
userAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.103 Safari/537.36 OPR/60.0.3255.165
osType: Windows
osVersion: 10.0
browserType: Opera
browserVersion: 60.0.3255.165
deviceType: Unknown
This code is based on the most voted question but I might be easier to use
public enum OS {
WINDOWS,
MAC,
LINUX,
ANDROID,
IPHONE,
UNKNOWN;
public static OS valueOf(HttpServletRequest request) {
final String userAgent = request.getHeader("User-Agent");
final OS toReturn;
if (userAgent == null || userAgent.isEmpty()) {
toReturn = UNKNOWN;
} else if (userAgent.toLowerCase().contains("windows")) {
toReturn = WINDOWS;
} else if (userAgent.toLowerCase().contains("mac")) {
toReturn = MAC;
} else if (userAgent.toLowerCase().contains("x11")) {
toReturn = LINUX;
} else if (userAgent.toLowerCase().contains("android")) {
toReturn = ANDROID;
} else if (userAgent.toLowerCase().contains("iphone")) {
toReturn = IPHONE;
} else {
toReturn = UNKNOWN;
}
return toReturn;
}
}