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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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