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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