Wireless Universal Resource File
Handset Detection for Mobile Applications. Device Description Database
Description
With the possible exception of "vertical" applications (i.e. applications or site that only work on one specific type of device), content providers need to identify the devices with which users access their sites and services (i.e. Device Detection). This is typically made through a DDR, or Device Description Repository, i.e. a software component which can map the HTTP request generated by s mobile device, to a description of the features supported by that device.
WURFL, a popular open-source DDR, has addressed the problem for over 10 years. WURFL addresses the most disparate needs, from large enterprise installation with strict performance and reliability requirements, to regular companies who need a solution that is simple to deploy, integrate and customize.
WURFL can detect internet-enabled mobile phones, PDAs, all kinf of handsets and any kind of HTTP client, including tablets and SmartTVs.
WURFL is provided by ScientiaMobile, Inc., Reston, Virginia.
User Ratings
User Reviews
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Wow! It's very good job! Thanks!
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License too restrictive to be useful
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No longer Open Source
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This is a bait and switch. This project used to be open source, but Luca Passini has now decided to turn all those gathered contributions into his own profit-making enterprise. You can't modify or redistribute the main data file the code depends on. His company even filed a DMCA takedown against a fork of the last open source version. Don't support this shameful behaviour, use OpenDDR instead.
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With this license change I am not sure even if this is appropriate to be in SF.
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good job