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WURFL stands for Wireless Universal Resource FiLe.

The WURFL is a commercial open-source mobile device database and open-source (AGPL) API that provides access to a database of mobile devices and browser characteristics. WURFL recognizes virtually all known mobile devices and tracks many device characteristics. All the device data is stored in an XML file which can be customized and extended using patch files.

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Best Open Source WURFL alternative

I am looking to do some device detection in PHP and I am looking into a few options. The one that looks the best right now is WURFL http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/. But I am very leery of it because of its non open source license. I am also wondering…
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Mobile Device Browser File vs. WURFL for ASP.NET

I am working on a commercial web application that has a separate mobile browser version intended for the more capable devices (BlackBerry, iPhone, Android, etc). I don't want to do simple User Agent contains style logic and was looking at the…
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Missing XMLReader in my PHP version?

I'm trying to use the WURFL API for PHP. I'm getting the following error during its initialization. Fatal error: Class 'XMLReader' not found in /var/www/html/wurfl-api/WURFL/Xml/AbstractIterator.php on line 89 my version of PHP when I run php…
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How to detect mobile device and get user agent info send and save that information to database on server, only once?

Is there any script to check user agent then send and save that information to database on server? I'm making mobile website with 2 versions like m.facebook.com and touch.facebook.com and I want to redirect to different mobiles. and I use WURFL…
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WURFL with Zend Framework ignoring cache directory configuration

I'm following the tutorial on setting up WURFL with Zend Framework to enable easy mobile browser detection. http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.http.user-agent.html#zend.http.user-agent.quick-start I have got it setup to the point where it can…
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Overhead of WURFL vs responsive design in PHP

I'm working on an in-house project management web based application that needs to support mobile devices as well as desktop. It's built with Symfony2, jQuery, HTML5. Are there any performance comparisons between using WURFL as opposed to…
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Create WURFL patch matching partial user-agent

I'm using WURFL to identify whether a user is on a mobile device. Some User-Agent strings are incorrectly recognized as mobile devices which in turn causes the content-type to be set incorrectly. Here an example of a real life user agent behaving…
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WURFL not detecting FireFox 4 successfully

I'm using an 3rd party application for device detection called FiftyOne Degrees (http://51degrees.mobi). That application uses WURFL (http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/) to find out what type of device requested the page based on the user agent. This…
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Android webview does not load the page but app load from browser

I have a html 5 mobile web app which load from browser fine but get stuck on android webview. We used a splash screen before loading the web app and my webview is stuck into the splash screen , does not load the home page. We are using wurfl api to…
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MVC5 DisplayModeProvider registration problems

so I have an mvc 5 application with 3 display modes, desktop (default), mobile, and tablet. I'm using WURFL to figure out devices. Here's the code called from global.cs to register: public static void RegisterDisplayModes(IList…
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wurfl: How to configure wurfl_patch.xml in web.xml?

In my application , I created a wurfl_patch.xml file in WEB-INF folder.But there is another patch file web_browsers_patch.xml also exists. I configured these files as like below. wurfl …
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How do I override Deployment package defaults in GCP Deployment Manager?

I would like to create an instance of WURFL Microservice Basic from the GCP Marketplace however I'd like to do that programatically so that I can reproduce it if required. I downloaded the deployment zip file from the above linked page: and…
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Implement Wurfl

I am just starting out with Wurfl implementation for a ASP.NET web site. Could someone please provide me some directions for any available documentation. Thank you,
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Mobile device detection for rendering rich web content

What are the most web-capable mobile phones to date (models and / or user agents) and What rules should be assessed when trying to determine if they will handle a rich mobile-customised site? I am developing a mobile website and currently doing…
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Getting Original Phone useragent with J2ME

Kinda new to J2ME. I was wondering how I could go about in getting a J2ME midlet to send the original user agent of the mobile device to a server instead of: "Profile/MIDP-1.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.0"? The problem here is that I wont be able to kno…
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