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ami6 Posts: 121

Hi,

sometimes I post into this forum from my P800 but dont see this msg - do you guys just check for IP adresses from UK? Maybe you should go check for the remote user agent identifier instead to include this msg...

Ami6
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Posted: 2003-07-07 19:44:28
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mixin Posts: > 500

if you use the opera browser for the p800, it'll just say "posted from a wap device"
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Posted: 2003-07-07 19:51:18
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aZooZa Posts: 121

@ami6

Why would the Esato system know that you're posting from a P800 if you're using a standard TCP/IP session via a dialup ISP and CSD or HSCSD? It may recognise a GPRS bearer but again, how would it know it was a P800? Surely it's a signature thing or have I got this all wrong? The Opera deal is a different matter as the version is generic to the P800 so I can understand that...
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Posted: 2003-07-08 10:51:37
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craigc Posts: 149

not sure if it's done by this method here but the browser identifies itself as Opera running on a P800 so you can use this information to display a message ...
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Posted: 2003-07-08 13:48:38
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ami6 Posts: 121

Hi,

any tool evaluating environment variables can detect this - for example in PHP you do:

$mobile_phone = getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT");
echo $mobile_phone;

and you know exactly on release level which software is currently in that phone...
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Posted: 2003-07-08 15:10:49
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