Web Development: Using WURFL to identify the Clients’s device

Sometimes in web-development, it is needed to identify the connecting device, if it is a mobile phone, a tablet or a normal desktop browser.

This is possible by inspecting the HTTP_USER_AGENT parameter -part of the HTTP header- which has some information about the client’s browser, connecting device and operating system.

Anyway; the HTTP_USER_AGENT parameter is a mess, there are no specifications about how the browser should formulate the HTTP_USER_AGENT string and you can never tell from the string signature the supported features on the connecting device. Sometimes it is needed to know if  the connecting device support HTML5 and J2ME? , does this device have a QWERTY keyboard …etc.

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Use XAMPP and Knowledgeroot to build your own knowledge base

Have you ever found yourself in the following situations:

– You find a great tip on the internet or in an email and you know that if you don’t record it somewhere right now, you will loose it.

– You get a certain Error message, and you know this is not the first time you had it.  You just know you have solved this error like a year ago, but you just don’t know where to look for for the solution you found before.

If you have Iron-bullet-proof memory, you don’t need to read any further.

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