Sprint Hiding User Agent

I did a search this morning to see if there was anything related to the cookie issue with Openwave software. Instead I found a post from Dennis saying that it appears that Sprint has now followed Vodafone in disrupting the mobile web. Ouch. And their partner in crime? Openwave. I was hoping to find some positive reaction, instead I find a new mention of negative behavior. Damn.

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5 Responses to Sprint Hiding User Agent

  1. Jim says:

    We found that sites beginning with “mobile.” are still sent the UA properly. So, one quick hack is to detect the Sprint UA and redirect those clients to an appropriately named host in your domain. Another idea that we’re still testing is to detect the Sprint UA, redirect to a “mobile.” site that does not nothing but redirect back with the real UA encoded as a query parameter in the URL.

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