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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-11597

The QT User-Agent is too limited to identify the originating mobile phone

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Incomplete
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    • 4.6.0, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.6.3
    • Network
    • Symbian 3
      Phones : N97 / N97-mini / X6

    Description

      We made some testings with QT, and it seems that the default QT user agent is "Mozilla/5.0".
      This user agent looks like a PC one, and does not allow to discriminate the mobile phone originating the request.

      Here are some of the consequences :
      1) A lot of services uses the User-Agent to adapt the content of their responses to the mobile. Either to send back a mobile specific page versus a PC page, or to provide specific pages according to the model type.
      2) Network access statistics are often performed based on the User-Agent.

      Can you use the default User-Agent of the phone as the default User-Agent for your QT releases ?

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            jokiniva Jukka Jokiniva (Inactive)
            gregoire_gueret Gregoire Gueret
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