Hi DJ, You've highlighted an area that is regularly debated: if the API must decide between detecting the device or detecting the browser, but not both, what should it choose? Currently, the Database API will err on the side of the device for OperaMini requests, since OperaMini does not send much he...

You're correct - thanks for the good catch! We'll get it updated soon.

You don't need to remove that line. The WURFL data should only be reloaded if the wurfl.zip file has changed or if the persistence data is incomplete. This behaviour is enabled with the auto_reload option. If the data is being reloaded all the time, there must be something wrong, but I would check f...

Hi DJ, Here is a script that will use the Database API (Tera-WURFL) to generate a list of devices that have "streaming_video" set to true: <?php require_once '../Tera-WURFL/TeraWurfl.php'; $wurfl = new TeraWurfl(); $devices = $wurfl->db->getFullDeviceList(TeraWurflConfig::$TABLE_PREFIX.'Merge'); for...

Hi Claire,

I totally understand your concern, and I can assure you that even one second of downtime is unacceptable to us. Is this a periodic problem, or does it always fail? We can also try using the CURL method instead of fsock if you have the CURL extension enabled in PHP.

Hi, sorry about the trouble. I imagine there is a firewall in front of your server that is blocking outbound connections.

Are you using a shared-hosting plan, and if you don't mind sharing, which hosting provider are you using?

Hi, we do not currently have a module for lighttpd.

First, there are two types of storage that the PHP API uses, Persistence and Cache. The Persistence layer takes the WURFL.XML file and puts it in a format that PHP can easily consume, like files or APC objects. When uncached requests are made to the API, it will look for the matching device in the p...

Hi, thanks for the information. We will be pushing an update out to the cloud service in the next couple hours that will resolve this issue.

Hi,

The culprit is "Xenu Link Sleuth", which caused 129899 detections. I have removed these detections from your history, so they will not be counted against you.

Hi, I am looking into your issue right now.

Hi,

The WURFL Cloud Service runs in high-performance mode, although we are considering different options to allow for more accurate detection of desktop devices in the Cloud in the coming months.

Hi Henk,

The code I posted previously does just that. Note that their is a "!" before $isTablet which means "if is wireless and not is tablet".

Here's an updated code snippet: require_once("wurfl/TeraWurfl.php"); $wurflObj = new TeraWurfl(); $wurflObj->getDeviceCapabilitiesFromAgent(); $isWireless = $wurflObj->getDeviceCapability("is_wireless_device"); $isTablet = $wurflObj->getDeviceCapability("is_tablet"); if($isWireless && !$isTablet) he...

Hi Anders,

Unfortunately, there is not a reliable way to detect Retina devices at this time. Note that for other, non-Apple devices, you can always look at the resolution_width / physical_screen_width (in millimeters).

I'm glad you found the answer - thanks for posting!

Hi,

Currently this feature is not supported, however, all the model names are available in the WURFL.xml file as well, so searching that file might be an option.

Thanks for the feedback, we will find an appropriate place in the documentation to add this tip.

Hi Ulrik, Our modules for Varnish-Cache, NGINX and Apache can all be used to inject headers into the incoming request, and, assuming you're using them as a reverse-proxy/load-balancer, this can seriously simplify the deployment of WURFL in your environment. Here's a blog post from Luca Passani, our ...

Also, note that our load balancers are very picky about timing and they will give you a "HTTP/1.0 408 Request Time-out" if the request is not completed in 1 second, so the connection should not be left open unless there is something seriously wrong on your side.