[twitter-dev] Re: Accessing twitter.com on Windows CE devices (not Windows Mobile)
If you're writing custom code, simply set the user-agent header yourself. If you're stuck in IE6 for WinCE, and it's just you, I think there are registry settings you can hack. If you have wider distribution, you might be out of luck. I think this issue has been raised previously however. A fix from Twitter would be nice. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:01 PM, NaileBrotte nailebro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm working on a device running Windows CE 6.0 / IE6 (not Windows Mobile 6), and when accessing www.twitter.com, I'm redirected to m.twitter.com (because the User Agent says Windows CE). The problem is that IE6 doesn't handle the login page that is being sent by the server because it's marked as application/xhtml+xml which IE doesn't handle and just offers for download. Is there a way to access the standard page? Or browse a fixed URL that wouldn't redirect to the mobile page? There must be a few devices like that with that same problem. Maybe the parsing of the User Agent could be made a bit more specific about what has to be identified as a mobile. Thanks in advance. NB. wget -U Windows CE www.twitter.com --2009-10-08 11:46:33-- http://www.twitter.com/ Resolving www.twitter.com... 168.143.161.20 Connecting to www.twitter.com|168.143.161.20|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://twitter.com/ [following] --2009-10-08 11:46:33-- http://twitter.com/ Resolving twitter.com... 168.143.161.20 Reusing existing connection to www.twitter.com:80. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Cookie coming from twitter.com attempted to set domain to m.twitter.com Location: http://twitter.com/login [following] --2009-10-08 11:46:34-- http://twitter.com/login Reusing existing connection to www.twitter.com:80. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 3404 (3.3K) [application/xhtml+xml] Saving to: `login' 0K ... 100% 24.6K=0.1s 2009-10-08 11:46:34 (24.6 KB/s) - `login' saved [3404/3404] wget -U Windows www.twitter.com --2009-10-08 11:46:15-- http://www.twitter.com/ Resolving www.twitter.com... 168.143.162.116 Connecting to www.twitter.com|168.143.162.116|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://twitter.com/ [following] --2009-10-08 11:46:15-- http://twitter.com/ Resolving twitter.com... 168.143.162.116 Reusing existing connection to www.twitter.com:80. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 21063 (21K) [text/html] Saving to: `index.html' 0K .. .. 100% 54.8K=0.4s 2009-10-08 11:46:21 (54.8 KB/s) - `index.html' saved [21063/21063]
[twitter-dev] Re: Accessing twitter.com on Windows CE devices (not Windows Mobile)
Have you tried going straight to http://twitter.com/login ? it does not redirect to mobile version and should render in mobile IE6. On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: If you're writing custom code, simply set the user-agent header yourself. If you're stuck in IE6 for WinCE, and it's just you, I think there are registry settings you can hack. If you have wider distribution, you might be out of luck. I think this issue has been raised previously however. A fix from Twitter would be nice. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:01 PM, NaileBrotte nailebro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm working on a device running Windows CE 6.0 / IE6 (not Windows Mobile 6), and when accessing www.twitter.com, I'm redirected to m.twitter.com (because the User Agent says Windows CE). The problem is that IE6 doesn't handle the login page that is being sent by the server because it's marked as application/xhtml+xml which IE doesn't handle and just offers for download. Is there a way to access the standard page? Or browse a fixed URL that wouldn't redirect to the mobile page? There must be a few devices like that with that same problem. Maybe the parsing of the User Agent could be made a bit more specific about what has to be identified as a mobile. Thanks in advance. NB. wget -U Windows CE www.twitter.com --2009-10-08 11:46:33-- http://www.twitter.com/ Resolving www.twitter.com... 168.143.161.20 Connecting to www.twitter.com|168.143.161.20|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://twitter.com/ [following] --2009-10-08 11:46:33-- http://twitter.com/ Resolving twitter.com... 168.143.161.20 Reusing existing connection to www.twitter.com:80. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Cookie coming from twitter.com attempted to set domain to m.twitter.com Location: http://twitter.com/login [following] --2009-10-08 11:46:34-- http://twitter.com/login Reusing existing connection to www.twitter.com:80. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 3404 (3.3K) [application/xhtml+xml] Saving to: `login' 0K ... 100% 24.6K=0.1s 2009-10-08 11:46:34 (24.6 KB/s) - `login' saved [3404/3404] wget -U Windows www.twitter.com --2009-10-08 11:46:15-- http://www.twitter.com/ Resolving www.twitter.com... 168.143.162.116 Connecting to www.twitter.com|168.143.162.116|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://twitter.com/ [following] --2009-10-08 11:46:15-- http://twitter.com/ Resolving twitter.com... 168.143.162.116 Reusing existing connection to www.twitter.com:80. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 21063 (21K) [text/html] Saving to: `index.html' 0K .. .. 100% 54.8K=0.4s 2009-10-08 11:46:21 (54.8 KB/s) - `index.html' saved [21063/21063]
[twitter-dev] Re: Accessing twitter.com on Windows CE devices (not Windows Mobile)
Thanks Andy, Changing the user agent is a possibility, although advertising that we are a mobile device sometimes has its advantages, like defaulting to Google's mobile page, which is a simpler, stripped down version. So as an OEM, it's a fine balance when deciding between which big web servers need to be privileged for our customers. The good thing (actually not sure if it's that good in terms of XHTML standards) is that Google serves its mobile version with the text/html type, which means IE has no problem at all reading it, despite being the same kind of XHTML as m.twitter.com's ... Anyway, I'm drifting a little bit. In the same way that we can access the m.twitter.com from a non mobile computer, it would be good to have for instance a c.twitter.com (a C for Classic) that lets mobile devices (any device actually) access the standard page if they see fit, despite what the server thinks is best. So I hope someone from Twitter could take this request into consideration. Cheers, NB. On Oct 8, 7:37 pm, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: If you're writing custom code, simply set the user-agent header yourself. If you're stuck in IE6 for WinCE, and it's just you, I think there are registry settings you can hack. If you have wider distribution, you might be out of luck. I think this issue has been raised previously however. A fix from Twitter would be nice. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me:http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:01 PM, NaileBrotte nailebro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm working on a device running Windows CE 6.0 / IE6 (not Windows Mobile 6), and when accessingwww.twitter.com, I'm redirected to m.twitter.com (because the User Agent says Windows CE). The problem is that IE6 doesn't handle the login page that is being sent by the server because it's marked as application/xhtml+xml which IE doesn't handle and just offers for download. Is there a way to access the standard page? Or browse a fixed URL that wouldn't redirect to the mobile page? There must be a few devices like that with that same problem. Maybe the parsing of the User Agent could be made a bit more specific about what has to be identified as a mobile. Thanks in advance. NB. wget -U Windows CEwww.twitter.com --2009-10-08 11:46:33-- http://www.twitter.com/ Resolvingwww.twitter.com... 168.143.161.20 Connecting towww.twitter.com|168.143.161.20|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location:http://twitter.com/[following] --2009-10-08 11:46:33-- http://twitter.com/ Resolving twitter.com... 168.143.161.20 Reusing existing connection towww.twitter.com:80. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Cookie coming from twitter.com attempted to set domain to m.twitter.com Location:http://twitter.com/login[following] --2009-10-08 11:46:34-- http://twitter.com/login Reusing existing connection towww.twitter.com:80. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 3404 (3.3K) [application/xhtml+xml] Saving to: `login' 0K ... 100% 24.6K=0.1s 2009-10-08 11:46:34 (24.6 KB/s) - `login' saved [3404/3404] wget -U Windowswww.twitter.com --2009-10-08 11:46:15-- http://www.twitter.com/ Resolvingwww.twitter.com... 168.143.162.116 Connecting towww.twitter.com|168.143.162.116|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location:http://twitter.com/[following] --2009-10-08 11:46:15-- http://twitter.com/ Resolving twitter.com... 168.143.162.116 Reusing existing connection towww.twitter.com:80. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 21063 (21K) [text/html] Saving to: `index.html' 0K .. .. 100% 54.8K=0.4s 2009-10-08 11:46:21 (54.8 KB/s) - `index.html' saved [21063/21063]
[twitter-dev] Re: Accessing twitter.com on Windows CE devices (not Windows Mobile)
Thanks Pavlo, I tried, but it doesn't make a difference, despite sending a filename index.html, the page served is still flagged as application/xhtml+xml and coming from m.twitter.com And this is something wget can confirm. $ wget -U Windows CE twitter.com/login/ --2009-10-09 10:46:55-- http://twitter.com/login/ Resolving twitter.com... 168.143.162.116 Connecting to twitter.com|168.143.162.116|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Cookie coming from twitter.com attempted to set domain to m.twitter.com Length: 3403 (3.3K) [application/xhtml+xml] Saving to: `index.html' Cheers, N.B. On Oct 8, 10:18 pm, Pavlo Zahozhenko pavlozahozhe...@gmail.com wrote: Have you tried going straight tohttp://twitter.com/login? it does not redirect to mobile version and should render in mobile IE6.
