Detecting handheld devices

[Chris Friedt]

actually, you're right. I didn't even think to just look in the http
headers

good luck ;-) 

>>> devin-Gq53QDLGkWIleAitJ8REmdBPR1lH4CV8 at public.gmane.org 6/20/05 1:43:36 pm >>>
Hey,

Thanks guys, that is a good link.  Tells me exactly where too look.  I
would much rather be able to check on the server then to check through
javascript after the page loads.

Later


On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 13:36 -0400, Taavi Burns wrote:
> On 6/20/05, James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Devin Whalen wrote:
> > > Hey,
> > >
> > > Does anyone know how to detect if someone goes to your website
using a
> > > pda or a handheld device?  When I go to www.ibm.com/ on a
wireless
> > > scanner device ibm automatically redirects me to
> > > http://wireless.ibm.com/us/ .  Can you detect this in Apache? 
Any help
> > > would be appreciated, even just a link to a good site.
> 
> Some googling "apache browser redirect headers device" provides:
>
http://developer.openwave.com/dvl/support/documentation/technical_notes/clientdevice.htm

> 
> 
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