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Wednesday, 21 May 2008 15:50

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When developing a mobile web site it is good to know the details of the user. It can help you to give a better user experience. A, lot of information can be obtained from the http headers (X-headers). X-headers are fields in the request HTTP header beginning with an X. These fields are kind of non-standard or proprietary add-ons to the regular fields in the HTTP header.

These can be used for all kinds of fun stuff when building mobile portals. X-headers can be used for many different things: User identification, device recognition, probing for network characteristics and much more. This information is useful both in terms of creating a good mobile experience and in terms of statistics.

Well Known Headers.

Header name

What it means

x-forwarded-for

Originating IP of a client connection to the server

x-forwarded-host

Origination host name

x-forwarded-server

Originating server name

x-wap-profile

A reference to the user-agent profile as specified.

x-wap-profile-diff

The wap gateway or proxy can choose to override the UA-profile. The diff is specified here.

Other interesting headers:

Header name

What it means

x-apn-id:

Identifies the Access Point Name. Wap, internet, email etc. can have different APNs

x-charging-id:

Anyone know this? It had no value

x-drutt-3pi-request-uri

Drutt is a business support system, bought by Ericsson. What this header means? Don't know...

x-drutt-3pi-serviceid

Dont know.

x-drutt-device-id

Identifies the device by name. For example: "Nokia_N95__S60_browser_"

x-drutt-request-id

Usage, unknown.

x-ebo-ua:

Usage, unknown.

x-ggsnip:

Contains the IP of the GGSN in the network.

x-h3g-cc

Usage, unknown. A header from Three, this...

x-h3g-client-ip

The current IP of the device in the network. Identifies session.

x-h3g-customer-subtype

Identifies the customers subscription type.

x-h3g-customer-type

Identifies the type of customer.

x-h3g-device-name

Name of the device. Example value: Nokia-N95-Safari

x-h3g-nc

Dont know. Had the value "4".

x-h3g-network-quality

Type of network. "3G" for example.

x-h3g-party-country

Identifies the home country of the user

x-h3g-party-id

Dont know.

x-h3g-party-status

Dont know

x-h3g-party-user-id

Dont know

x-h3g-roaming-status

Identifies if the user is roaming. Bool value

XID:

Dont know

x-jphone-color

Some softbank stuff

x-jphone-display

Screen size.

x-jphone-msname

Dont know. example value: 821P

x-jphone-region:

Dont know

x-jphone-smaf

Dont know.Example value "40/pcm"

x-jphone-uid:

A garbled unique identifier of the user

x-lori-time-1:

Dont know

x-net-info

Dont know.

x-network-info:

Contains bearer (i.e. GPRS) internal IP address etc.

x-os-prefs:

Tells something about the capabilities of the device. Example value: "fw:240; fh:320; cd:24c; pl:3; pj:1; pa:1;pi:1;ps:2;"

x-proxy-id:

Dont know.

x-psp-browser

The Playstation Portable browser version

x-psp-productcode

Dont know. The value is "CEL"

x-roaming:

Roaming info. Values "Yes" or "No"

x-sgsnip:

The IP address of the SGSN

x-source-id

Dont know

x-wapipaddr:

IP address of the wap gateway.

x-wap-proxy-cookie:

A cookie?

x-wsb-contextid

Dont know. Some Vodafone stuff?

Headers added by OpenWave Gateway

Header name

What it means

x-up-calling-line-id:

End users phone number

x-up-devcap-accept-language:

Similar to the accept-language header

x-up-devcap-cc:

Dont know. Value is "1"

x-up-devcap-charset:

Charset

x-up-devcap-charset: utf

Charset stuff

x-up-devcap-immed-alert:

Dont know

x-up-devcap-iscolor:

Defines if the device has a color screen. Bool

x-up-devcap-max-pdu:

Max size of payload.

x-up-devcap-msize:

Dont know.

x-up-devcap-numsoftkeys:

Numbers of softkeys on the device

x-up-devcap-screen-chars:

Numbers of characters that fits on one line?

x-up-devcap-screendepth:

Color depth

x-up-devcap-screenpixels:

Screen size in ipxels

x-up-devcap-smartdialing:

Dont know what smart dialing is, might be the "click to call" function

x-up-devcap-softkeysize:

Dont know

x-up-fax-accepts:

Dont know

x-up-fax-limit:

Dont know?

x-up-subno:

Some kind of identifier of the end user

x-up-uplink:

Seems like the dns name of the wap gateway

x-up-wappush-secure:

Dont know

x-up-wappush-unsecure:

Dont know

x-up-wtls-info:

Dont know.

Nokia wap gateway headers:

Header name

What it means

x-nokia-alias

The end users phone number. encrypted.

x-nokia-bearer:

i.e. GPRS

x-nokia-connection_mode

typically TCPIP

x-nokia-gateway-id:

Identifies the wap gateway. Seems similar to the use of the Via header

x-nokia-imsi:

Imsi value

x-nokia-ipaddress:

Internal IP address

x-nokia-localsocket:

Internal IP and a portnumber.

x-nokia-msisdn:

The users phone number in plain text.

x-nokia-musicshop-bearer

Nokias music shop. Typically "GPRS/3G"

x-nokia-musicshop-version:

Nokias music shop. The version.

x-nokia-prepaidind:

Something to do with the type of subscription. The value is "4"

Transcoder headers

Header name

What it means

x-novarra-device-type:

A Novarra header. Dont know the usage. The value is "0"

x-operamini-features:

Header added by the Opera Mini proxy. Values are "advanced, download, camera, folding, inputhints"

x-operamini-phone:

The phone name provided by the Opera Mini proxy.

x-operamini-phone-ua:

The original user-agent of the device using a Opera Mini browser

x-original-user-agent:

Googles transcoders way to pass the device' user agent to the server.

x-surfopen-msisdn:

Some SurfOpen stuff. The value idicates that it is created by humans

x-moz:

Dont know, but seems to define some kind og proxy behaviour. The value is "prefetch".

x-bluecoat-via

Not sure what this is, but probably related to bluecoat. Is it transcoding?

x-mobile-gateway:

Identifies the gateway/proxy. In this case: "Novarra-Vision/6.9 (TELIASONERA; Server-Only)"

x-mobile-ua:

This is the Mowser way of transmitting the original user agent

x-device-accept:

The device' original accept headers when squezed through a transcoder. In this case; Novarra. This behaviour is recommended by w3c

x-device-accept-charset:

se above

x-device-user-agent:

se above

Headers that can be used to identify the end user:

Header name

What it means

x-drutt-client-ip

Probably the current IP of the handset. The value is an internal IP in the 10. range

x-drutt-portal-user-id

A unique ID of the user in the drutt system.

x-drutt-portal-user-msisdn

The mobile phone number.

x-h3g-msisdn

the phone number.

x-imsi:

The imsi number. Identifies the end user.

x-msisdn

The end users phone number

x-nas-ip:

Dont know. The value is an internal IP

x-wap-clientid:

Seems like a unique identifier of the user.

x-wap-personalization:

Internal IP of the device in the telecom network

x-wsb-identity

End users phone number

x-wte-msisdn:

Indicates that the value is a phone number. Does not look like that...

x-nokia-imsi:

Imsi value

x-nokia-alias

The end users phone number. encrypted.

x-nokia-msisdn:

The users phone number in plain text.

x-up-calling-line-id:

End user identifier

AvantGo headers.

Header name

What it means

x-avantgo-browser

Identifies the AvantGo browser

x-avantgo-channelid

Self explaining

x-avantgo-clientcharset

Charset used in the client

x-avantgo-clientlanguage

Language code for the cloent

x-avantgo-colordepth

Value: "MTY"

x-avantgo-cradlesync

Value: "TRUE"

x-avantgo-deviceid

String identifying the device.

x-avantgo-deviceos

The operating system?

x-avantgo-deviceosversion

Os version?

x-avantgo-deviceprocessor

Processor?

x-avantgo-platformdata

?

x-avantgo-screensize

A string providing the screen size? Exampe value: "MTUweDo1MA"

x-avantgo-tracking-referer

?

x-avantgo-url

If it is an url, it is encrypted.

x-avantgo-userid

Identifying the end user.

x-avantgo-version

The version of AvangGo

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