Detecting Device Type

[Damon Morbius]

Is there a standard way to detect the device a visitor is using to
access your site (i.e. Cell phone, handheld, web browser). Ultimately
my goal is to detect what kind of device a visitor is using at a
domain level(www.domain.com) then send them to the appropriate url
(www.domain.com/wap, www.domain.com/palm). Any help is greatly
appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[Evertjan.]

Damon Morbius wrote on 09 mei 2004 in comp.lang.javascript:

s there a standard way to detect the device a visitor is using to
access your site (i.e. Cell phone, handheld, web browser). Ultimately
my goal is to detect what kind of device a visitor is using at a
domain level(www.domain.com) then send them to the appropriate url
(www.domain.com/wap, www.domain.com/palm). Any help is greatly
appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Serverside, HTTP_USER_AGENT gives strings like this:

"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Symbian OS; SonyEricsson P900; 305)
Opera 6.30 [nl]"

You could build a sniffer code in ASP or PHP

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