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How do I guarantee a non-mobile web site on safari for iPhone?
- Thread starter omerbaker
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maxim thinks its a cell phone and i hate maxim for this but seriously im am very curious why it would show up as a mobile version when apple claims its like a full browser in your hand
Your browser sends information about itself and the OS you are using every time you send a request. The site will then use that info to redirect if they wish.
I hate it as well, a local news site here redirects to a text only horrible looking page when I use the iPhone. I even e-mailed them about it saying iPhone users have a fully functional browser and should not be redirected. No response and still the same WAP page.
I mean, it would be so easy for them to exclude the redirect...
Another example of this in action is when you go to download an application on a site. When you click the "Download" link some sites will send you directly to the page to download the software for your particular OS.
I hate it as well, a local news site here redirects to a text only horrible looking page when I use the iPhone. I even e-mailed them about it saying iPhone users have a fully functional browser and should not be redirected. No response and still the same WAP page.
I mean, it would be so easy for them to exclude the redirect...Another example of this in action is when you go to download an application on a site. When you click the "Download" link some sites will send you directly to the page to download the software for your particular OS.
Here is the info for anyone interested...
Using OSX with Safari:
Request: GET /browser-check/ HTTP/1.1
Host: www.htaccesstools.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_7; en-us) AppleWebKit/530.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.1 Safari/530.18
Accept: application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Charset:
Keep-Alive:
Connection: keep-alive
Referer:
Remote Address (IP): xx.xxx.xxx.xxx(my edit)
Country (Based on IP): United States
And iPhone:
Request: GET /browser-check/ HTTP/1.1
Host: www.htaccesstools.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7A341 Safari/528.16
Accept: application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Charset:
Keep-Alive:
Connection: keep-alive
Referer:
Remote Address (IP): xx.xxx.xxx.xxx (my edit)
Country (Based on IP): United States
Using OSX with Safari:
Request: GET /browser-check/ HTTP/1.1
Host: www.htaccesstools.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_7; en-us) AppleWebKit/530.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.1 Safari/530.18
Accept: application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Charset:
Keep-Alive:
Connection: keep-alive
Referer:
Remote Address (IP): xx.xxx.xxx.xxx(my edit)
Country (Based on IP): United States
And iPhone:
Request: GET /browser-check/ HTTP/1.1
Host: www.htaccesstools.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7A341 Safari/528.16
Accept: application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Charset:
Keep-Alive:
Connection: keep-alive
Referer:
Remote Address (IP): xx.xxx.xxx.xxx (my edit)
Country (Based on IP): United States
I was just explaining how these sites determine a redirect if they choose to do so.
Your answers were given.....
If the site asks obviously pick the full version link
If the site redirects to a WAP page with no links to go to the full version your out of luck.
What he was showing you is the User-Agent strings that each browser sends. That's what websites use to decide whether to serve up their mobile version or not.
Some other mobile browsers allow you to switch the User Agent on the fly, so you can either be a mobile, or simulate a desktop to get the full pages.
iPhone Safari has needed something like that since the beginning.
But since it doesn't have that feature, your option is to figure out if there's a hardcoded desktop URL you can use to access the website. Sometimes it doesn't hurt to email them and ask. They're usually happy to oblige.
yea i agree. on my g1 when i go to cnn and maxim i get the full site. on my ipod touch i get the mobile version for both.
google the website, and then, instead of tapping the name, tap cached down below the name (next to the url listed under the search result)
this will take you to the full site instead of the mobile
its traffic.com.
I tried the google to the website. I even went to the classic google website and searched "traffic.com", found the link, clicked on it, then in the address bar it went from traffic.com to mobi.traffic.com.
when I've run into that problem, I've deleted the cache, temporary files, and history and been able to get the regular website to come up (for example, Yahoo).
I cleared the cache and went to google and then to traffic.com. I was still sent to the mobile site.
whats a guy to do when he wants to look at maxim hotties
and all he gets is the crappy cell phone version