Wirelessly posted

bigrell486 · Jul 23, 2010

Why are the user agents added to posts for people who post from their cell phones?

example:

Code:

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_0_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8A306 Safari/6531.22.7)

If its to catch new apple stuff, wouldn't publicly displaying said info discourage those in possession of the device from posting anything?

Besides even if they didn't post, the site admin should be able to see what connects to the site anyway.

I just find it annoying to see mostly because it seems unnecessary and useless, plus I don't care what device/OS/browser people are using to post.

angelwatt · Jul 23, 2010

I think it's mostly to help explain to others why they may have so many spelling errors in their post. I find it useless too.

Hellhammer · Jul 23, 2010

I find it cool because it tells you that they are on their mobile and thus you can more easily accept typos and other mistakes they have done. It could be just "Wirelessly posted" though

Schtumple · Jul 23, 2010

It's when you post from the mobile version of MR I believe.

WildCowboy · Jul 23, 2010

Yes, it happens when people post from the mobile version of the forums. I'm not sure if and how it could be removed, but I agree...it's kind of distracting.

celticpride678 · Jul 23, 2010

Probably something with the WAP forums system.

Tilpots · Jul 23, 2010

More here, just FYI:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/585644/

ARF900 · Jul 23, 2010

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_0_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8A306 Safari/6531.22.7)

Heyyy test.

From my iphone.

GroundLoop · Jul 25, 2010

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B367 Safari/531.21.10)

Wonder if it knows the difference between the iPhone and iPad?

GL

Edit: guess so.

bobfitz14 · Jul 26, 2010

why does it say Mozilla at the start?

angelwatt · Jul 26, 2010

bobfitz14 said:
why does it say Mozilla at the start?

Simply put, it's a result of the browser wars between Netscape (now Mozilla more or less) and Internet Explorer. Even IE says Mozilla in their browser agent.

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