Thanks David. *request->user_agent* works in both cases (with Dancer's backend as well as with plackup). Would appreciate understanding why using %ENV for this is not a good idea. On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 3:11 AM, David Precious <davidp@preshweb.co.uk>wrote:
On Wednesday 20 July 2011 06:27:37 Gurunandan Bhat wrote:
I want to find the Browser string something that is available with $ENV{HTTP_USER_AGENT} when I run a Da*ncer app with teh default backend. However when I run the app with plackup (plackup -s Starman app.pl) $ENV{HTTP_USER_AGENT} is undefined.
You're better off using request->user_agent rather than poking around in %ENV.
Is there a way I can get to this value that does not depend on how I run the Dancer application?
Please try the above first. If you find that request->user_agent isn't getting you the user agent when run via plackup, something odd is happening; supplying a dump of request->env may be helpful.
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