How can I get client information such as OS and browser

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Your best bet is User-Agent header. You can get it like this in JSP or Servlet,

String userAgent = request.getHeader("User-Agent");

The header looks like this,

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.13) Gecko/2009073021 Firefox/3.0.13

It provides detailed information on browser. However, it’s pretty much free format so it’s very hard to decipher every single one. You just need to figure out which browsers you will support and write parser for each one. When you try to identify the version of browser, always check newer version first. For example, IE6 user-agent may contain IE5 for backward compatibility. If you check IE5 first, IE6 will be categorized as IE5 also.

You can get a full list of all user-agent values from this web site,

http://www.user-agents.org/

With User-Agent, you can tell the exact version of the browser. You can get a pretty good idea on OS but you may not be able to distinguish between different versions of the same OS, for example, Windows NT and 2000 may use same User-Agent.

There is nothing about resolution. However, you can get this with Javascript on an AJAX call.

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