Is it possible to get/detect culture in web service

Question

Hi,
I have a situation where I need to detect the language the browser is set to in a webservice.
I have tried all sorts including httpRequest.UserLanguages etc but I get a count of 0 but I know the browser has 2 languages in there.

The scenario is this.
I have a website asp.net 1.1 with some java applet calling a asmx webservice and within this webservice without passing any locale etc... I must be able to detect the language of the browser.Is this possible?

thanks a lot

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Thanks for your help

Answer 1

I don't think there's a way to do this in general.

If you want to know the culture, then the Java applet should send the culture explicitly.

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Answer 2

Hi,
I have a situation where I need to detect the language the browser is set to in a webservice.
I have tried all sorts including httpRequest.UserLanguages etc but I get a count of 0 but I know the browser has 2 languages in there.

The scenario is this.
I have a website asp.net 1.1 with some java applet calling a asmx webservice and within this webservice without passing any locale etc... I must be able to detect the language of the browser.Is this possible?

Is this something like this your were looking for..?

        [WebMethod]
        public string GetCulture()
        {
            string result = string.Empty;
            System.Globalization.CultureInfo cultureInfo = ResolveCulture();
            if (cultureInfo != null)
                result = cultureInfo.DisplayName;
            return result;
        }

        [WebMethod]
        public string GetCountry()
        {
            string result = string.Empty;
            System.Globalization.RegionInfo resolveCountry = ResolveCountry();
            if (resolveCountry != null)
                result = resolveCountry.DisplayName;
            return result;
        }

        public static System.Globalization.CultureInfo ResolveCulture()
        {
            string[] languages = HttpContext.Current.Request.UserLanguages;
            if (languages == null || languages.Length == 0)
                return null;
            try
            {
                string language = languages[0].ToLowerInvariant().Trim();
                return System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(language);
            }
            catch (ArgumentException)
            {
                return null;
            }
        }

        public static System.Globalization.RegionInfo ResolveCountry()
        {
            System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture = ResolveCulture();
            if (culture != null)
                return new System.Globalization.RegionInfo(culture.LCID);
            return null;
        }

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Balaji Baskar

Answer 3

Thanks for your reply.
the problem with the Java applet is I know NOTHING about java applet at all . How can I do it?
what is the equivalent in java of "HttpContext.Current.Request.UserLanguages[0] or how can I detect the browser in java.

any suggestions?

ideally it should be done in the java applet but i have not got a clue about it.
Any help?

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Thanks for your help

Answer 4

Hi Balaji
thanks for your code. I have similar code but the problem is that  in a webservice
"string[] languages = HttpContext.Current.Request.UserLanguages;" is always empty.It doesnt work in a webservice.If it did my problems would be resolved.
I even tried  HttpContext.Current.Request.ServerVariables["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"] but again is null in a web service.

do you know how I could achieve the same in Java?
any suggestions?

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Thanks for your help

Answer 5

Hi, The code that i have provided was tested in webservice project. you would see 2 webmethods (GetCulture(), GetCountry()) and they call 2 public methods (ResolveCulture(), ResolveCountry()).

I tried running this code and got this result back:
HttpContext.Current.Request.ServerVariables["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"]
//result: en-us

from the browser, same result

 

<script language="javascript">

document.write(navigator.browserLanguage)

 

</script>

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Balaji Baskar

Answer 6

Hi,
Thanks for your reply.Still doesnt work.
I have created a noddy test

1)Create a new Project Web application
2)Created a new WebService and copied your methods
3)IN the Web Application I have added a web reference to the webService
4)called your methods
5)they return null

I hope I m doing something wrong.

What I am saying is that in the webservice it's all null.
I wonder how you did it in the webservice.Did you have the same set up as I did?

thanks a lot for your help.

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Thanks for your help