Hi

I was just wondering if anyone had any suggestions for detecting mobile devices and automatically redirecting them to a mobile site using asp please?

Many thanks in advance

35173

Yes you can detect it by using the following code

if (Request.Browser["IsMobileDevice"] == "true" || Request.Browser["BlackBerry"] == "true" ) 
        {
            Response.Redirect("MobileDefault.aspx");
        }
        else 
        {
            Response.Redirect("DesktopDefault.aspx");
        }

There is no request.browser in ASP, vBscript or Jscript. aspx pages are for .NET scripts and " || " is a C/C++/PHP syntax for OR

So basically your solution is not going to work for ASP.

@35173 Are you using jScript or vBscript on the pages?

I'm using Jscript on my pages, but don't want to use Jscript in the mobile detection due to the fact that many mobile browsers won't have javascript enabled

Jscript runs on the SERVER not the client.

Ok thanks for that tip.. So... do you have a suggestion?

Use the request.servervariables collection and read the value for HTTP_USERAGENT key to see if it contains a known mobile device

http://www.useragentstring.com/