Hey everyone,

Just wondering if someone might have some insight into what could be causing this issue...

I am trying to retrieve request.servervariables("HTTP_USER_AGENT") and store it in a string for later use & comparison in my asp.net 4.0 web application.

Most places seem to work, but GoogleBot keeps coming up with the user agent being just the string "Mozilla" - and this is not valid. It should be a lot longer than that, and the old ASP classic code hanging around is actually seeing the correct user agent, through use of the same servervariable ...

Why is .NET not seeing it? I've also just tried setting it to Request.UserAgent - same result... only for GoogleBot though.

Makes me really wonder...

Do you know for certain for other languages that it is not the same, have you enable tracing for HTTP requests to look at header and server variables. The user agent can be what ever the the client wants to set it as, it is typically a strategy of bots to try and fool site that look for them by setting the user agent to various things.