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F1Mad
29th March 2006, 12:57 PM
Hi all,

I've recently been playing with a Vodafone V1640 (I understand that this is what Vodafone UK will be selling their Universal as), and have an issue that I'm hoping you guys can help me solve.

Basically, I'm surfing some of my websites using the WAN connection. Now, all these sites are coded in XHTML, yet when viewed with this V1640, it seems that the sites won't look as intended. Actually, it may work for a couple of page visits, and then it stops displaying the stylesheets.

After looking at the MIME "Accept" types sent to the web server by various PDAs and PC browsers, I *think* the problem may be due to the accept type that this V1640 is sending, ie "application/xhtml+xml". Strictly speaking, this is the correct content_type that should be sent back to the PDA by any web server hosting XHTML pages, but because MSIE doesn't support this MIME type properly, it's an issue a lot of web developers seem to be having at the moment when hosting sites on MS/IIS web servers.

Now, what I wanted to know is, can people with Universals from different networks report back as to what "Accept" types are being sent from your PDA to a web server? I want to establish whether the browser on this V1640 is at fault by not also sending an "Accept" type of "*/*" like most other PDAs I've come across - and also MSIE for that matter, too.

Any help is really appreciated!!

F1Mad
29th March 2006, 08:39 PM
OK, I've set up a link here for you to visit, so that you can tell me what your Universal is telling the web server what MIME types it accepts:

http://www.macroweb.co.uk/test.aspx

I'm not logging anything here, just displaying, so I'm relying on you posting back here on what you see with your PDA.

TIA

dah54
30th March 2006, 12:15 AM
SERVER VARIABLES
HTTP_ACCEPT: */*
CONTENT_TYPE:
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1) on PC

SERVER VARIABLES
HTTP_ACCEPT: */*
CONTENT_TYPE:
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; i-mate JASJAR PPC; 640x480; PPC; 240x320)

F1Mad
30th March 2006, 10:29 PM
dah, thanks for that! Most appreciated!!

At least in *your* case, it seems I was right about it being similar to a PC's MSIE6.0 .

Can some more people please hit that page? Preferably a Universal from each UK network, so that I can check any differences in their browsers?