How do I discover the channel being used for an HTTP request connection

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Hello,

I need to report back to an HTTP response which channel was used in a mobile device to transfer the data.

I.e Was the handheld connected to Wifi, GSM, HSPA or BlueTooth for example when the inital HTTP request was made.

The website needs to know how the information was returned.

Any help or pointers would be appreciated as this is not my area of expertise.

Paul

Posted 3-Jun-14 21:50pm

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2014-06-04T16:57:00

You can't. It's that simple.

The website will get no information at all on what physical network type was used. It cannot see anything below the transport (TCP) and network layers (IP). What you're talking about is the DataLink and Physical layers of the OSI model, which web servers never get any data on.

Member 8664429 · Answer 2 · 2014-06-09T05:14:00

Hello Dave,

Thanks for that but it is not the website end I am concerned about.
I am doing a POST to the website and constructing a string to POST, the web developer has set a field to hold channel infomation, I have to stuff that field with the channel information from the handheld device.

What I need is to open a web request and then query what channel was used to make the connection and then add that into my string variable at the right place, then stream that string to the website via the web request.

I'm using OpenNetCf.net to try and find out about the connection used but it keeps returning null, do I have to itterate through every connection in connection manager to identify the active one before I can identify it, I can't see another way.

Any help would be appreciated.

Paul

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