Web browsers detected as mobile devices

[rikitikitik]

Hi,

I have a couple of useragent strings from web browsers that are mistakenly detected as mobile devices.

We are currently using the DB with WurflInfo version: "db.scientiamobile.com - 2012-03-13 00:00:01" and the patch file from http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/web_browsers_patch.xml downloaded an hour before this post (16 Mar 2012 10:00 AM GMT +8).

Detected as HTC Desire HD / Actual is Safari 5.0.4 Mac OSX Snow Leopard
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_7; da-dk) AppleWebKit/533.20.25 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.4 Safari/533.20.27

Detected as Zune / Actual is Windows XP Internet Explorer 7
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)

In general, IE7 is detected as a mobile device even in Windows 7.

Thanks in advance

[luca.passani]

These are correctly recognized as Desktop Web Browsers by version 1.4 of the API.

I suggest you hold your breath until 1.4 is released (soon). Alternatively, you can contact us offline and we will send you a release candidate

Luca

[rikitikitik]

Thanks for the reply. I think we'd rather wait for the final version.

Do you have an ETA for the release of 1.4?

[sm_support2]

Next week. We are still not sure whether we will release it to the community right away, or will allow commercial licensees to get access to it in advance of everyone else.

[rikitikitik]

We actually have a commercial license. May I know how we can get hold of a release candidate while waiting for 1.4? luca.passani mentioned something about contacting you guys offline to get a copy. May I know how we can do that exactly? Thanks

[kamermans]

Please send us an email at support@ our domain name and we will send it over. Also, we will needs to know what API you are using (PHP, Database API, .NET, Java).

[elrichar]

Adding to this thread since it seems similar:

I'm using the Java 1.4 RC API (just got it today). Using Safari 5.1.2 (7534.52.7) desktop browser, the API is returning the "is_wireless_device" capability as true - I'd think this should be false.

My actual user agent (according to whatsmyuseragent.com) is
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/534.52.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.2 Safari/534.52.7

In the API, device.getUserAgent() returns
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT; U; en) AppleWebKit/522+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Iris/1.0.13 Safari/419.3

device.getMatchType() == "conclusive"
device.getMatcherName() == "SafariMatcher"

Let me know if I'm misinterpreting something here or if you want me to test differently. Thanks.

[luca.passani]

I'm afraid the Java engineers are gone for the weekend, but we will look into this.

Thanks

Luca

[fulvio.crivellaro]

We are checking for the solution.
We will inform you about it as soon as possible.

Fulvio

[fulvio.crivellaro]

The problem has been solved with the latest wurfl.xml file.
Can you try to download it, and tell us if the result is correct?

Fulvio

[fulvio.crivellaro]

I apologize for my mistake: the issue will be solved with the next release, since it is not available for download yet.

FC

[elrichar]

Is there an ETA for the next release of the xml file? And while I'm asking, is there an ETA for the release of the official 1.4 API? Thanks.

[sm_support2]

Elrichar, the problem will be solved in the next wurfl.xml snapshot

Thank you

[sm_support2]

for commercial licensees, we release weekly snapshots (updates) of the WURFL DB.

We are working on the packaging of all 4 APIs. If everything goes smooth, we will release at the end of this week

[elrichar]

Ok, thank you, I'll grab it from the weekly snapshot as soon as our commercial license is official and I can do so.

[luca.passani]

if you write me offline and tell me what the customer is, I am sure that we can organize getting you a snapshot before the formalities are finalized. You can send emails to: luca.passani @ scientiamobile

Thanks

Luca

[Tinkas]

I want to know that can web browser detect my mobile devices. I am a user of U Mobile. So, I think web browser's can not detect my mobile device . Please tell me that I am right or wrong?

[sm_support2]

I am sorry but your question does not make enough sense to attempt an answer. Can you try to explain what you mean again?

If English is an issue, you may want to try http://translate.google.com to translate from your native language to English...

Thank you