Beginner question - forcing exclusive WML?

[david feldman-2]

How does (or can) wmlbrowser extension to firefox deal with mixed-mode sites (I'm not sure what the correct term is for this)? The specific site I'm dealing with is msn hotmail which has a low-bandwidth mobile access mode geared to PDAs and cell phones. They (microsoft) are making frequent changes lately, and the current version appears to steer me to their regular HTML/Javascript site (previously, I could navigate their mobile/low bandwidth site by starting with the appropriate URL - mobile.live.com is the most recent starting URL.) What I want is to keep the session entirely in the WML mode - while I don't know if this would work, I was hoping it could be a reasonable starting point.

Hope this makes sense,

Tks,

Dave

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[Matthew Wilson-4]

david feldman wrote:
> How does (or can) wmlbrowser extension to firefox deal with
> mixed-mode
sites (I'm not sure what the correct term is for this)? The specific
site I'm dealing with is msn hotmail which has a low-bandwidth mobile
access mode geared to PDAs and cell phones. They (microsoft) are making
frequent changes lately, and the current version appears to steer me to
their regular HTML/Javascript site (previously, I could navigate their
mobile/low bandwidth site by starting with the appropriate URL -
mobile.live.com is the most recent starting URL.) What I want is to keep
the session entirely in the WML mode - while I don't know if this would
work, I was hoping it could be a reasonable starting point.

Hi,

   In general, sites decide whether or not to serve a WML version based
on two parameters which your browser sends to them:

1. The User-Agent.
2. The "Accept" header.

   There is a separate Firefox extension which allows you to change the
User-Agent, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59. This is
what the browser uses to identify itself to the server. Some sites will
only serve WML content to specific types of devices.

   The Accept header says what kinds of content the browser understands.
You can use wmlbrowser to tell sites that Firefox understands WML
content. Right-click on the toolbar area and select "Customize", and you
should have a "WML mode" button which you can drag on to the toolbar.

   Hopefully that gives you something to start with. But you can't, in
general, force a session to be in WML mode - you just have to find out
how to ask the server nicely for it.

Matthew
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