Web and WebWorks Development

[5020379021]

As far as I know, I can identify a client browser by checking request.getHeader("user-Agent"), if the value contains "Blackberry" then I can tell it is a Blackberry device which is now sending request to my server. But what's the case for other handle device, such as iPhone, palm...? Some one suggest that I check request.getHeader("Accept") to see if it contains "wml". But to be frank, it doesn't work for iPhone since safari in iPhone only contains "HTML" in that value. I'm wondering if there is a common (or much better) way or regular expression to implement my requirement? Thanks

[jwargo · Accepted solution]

There are scripts out there that can detect mobile devices.

http://detectmobilebrowsers.mobi/

[5020379021]

Very useful, Thanks a lot!

[moviladetection]

Hi,

To help people to do mobile device detection we have published two free ways to do device detection: detectFree and Movila Detection proxy.

DetectFree works as a service. You need to add a small JavaScript script in to your website and it checks whether the browser is mobile or not.

Movila Detection proxy is a full HTTP proxy which has mobile device detection as a one feature.

Link: Mobile device detection

Hope this helps.

[magicdesign]

we use www.handsetdetection.com as we have to customize thew content based on device and screen size. We also report back to our client with mobile analytics.

If you want to build your own detection system, you can look into wurfl (but that was time i didnt have to spare at this stage)