Something I noticed earlier...

[christopherwoods]

I was surfing my Hermes' registry earlier (if you could call it that), and I noticed an odd reg entry: in HKLM > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Internet Settings, it has a link to an HTC XML file:

http://www.htcmms.com.tw/tmo/mdavario-2.0.xml

Loading it up in Firefox/IE shows all sorts of information about the device (not my device in particular, just generic information about the device model I have) and various references to resources on the Open Mobile Alliance site... I did notice that the URL contains /tmo/, a reference to my phone being branded as a T-Mobile Vario 2 - who else has this link in their registry, and is it operator-specific like mine is?


Any idea what larger purpose this serves?

[MikeChannon]

Not present on TyTn. So presume it's as you say a customisation file.

Mike

[tadzio]

I was surfing my Hermes' registry earlier (if you could call it that), and I noticed an odd reg entry: in HKLM > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Internet Settings, it has a link to an HTC XML file:

http://www.htcmms.com.tw/tmo/mdavario-2.0.xml

Loading it up in Firefox/IE shows all sorts of information about the device (not my device in particular, just generic information about the device model I have) and various references to resources on the Open Mobile Alliance site... I did notice that the URL contains /tmo/, a reference to my phone being branded as a T-Mobile Vario 2 - who else has this link in their registry, and is it operator-specific like mine is?


Any idea what larger purpose this serves?

That's the "User Agent Profile" URL. "User Agent" here refers to your web browser, i.e. PocketIE. This URL is sent together with each HTTP request to the server. The server can then grab that file, analyse it, and modify the response to your request so that it matches best the capabilities of your device as described in said User Agent profile.

So, it should really be just device-specific and not carrier-specific. But you know how some carriers are - the want to get their name to wherever they can. :-)


If you want more information, just google for "UAProf".

Cheers
Daniel