Browser Information

This is probably the most versatile type of redirect available in Redirect Toolkit. There are two sides of this redirect:

Browser Information (name, version, declared capabilities, etc)
Device Detection - Problem with this the lack of a standard where devices would just send a flag (saying I’m a device) to the server. So it’s up to the server to somehow figure out if the call was made by a mobile device.

There are two methods used to detect mobile devices:

Database method - User agent string is tested against a database with all devices that exist in the world; this method is the safes one but adds a heavy footprint to the application
The regular expression method implies matching known parts of the user agent string. This is the method that Redirect Toolkit uses and further more it provides a mechanism to extend the detection with new devices. This is done by adding your own regular expressions to file /DesktopModules/avt.RedirectToolkit/MobileDeviceRegEx.xml or let us know about the device and will get it included in the core regular expression.

Properties

Following properties are supported: