This Application Is Viewable Only On iPhone
Has anyone faked the User-Agent to see more?
UPDATE (2007-06-29): Now that the iPhone is out, the page (on a real iPhone) has the title "Device Error page" and the body text "If you'd like to view an RSS feed, just enter the feed URL directly into Safari's address bar."
When you do that (e.g. http://jtauber.com/atom/full/) it actually redirects you back to http://reader.mac.com/mobile/v1/{{the feed url}}
Comments (5)
michael on June 28, 2007:
curl -A 'iPhone' http://reader.mac.com and other variants does the same.
Kumar McMillan on June 28, 2007:
This should probably open the site: http://www.marketcircle.com/iphoney/
(but I haven't tried)
otherwise, it looks like a nice development tool for previewing sites when you don't have an iphone.
James Tauber on June 28, 2007:
iphoney is pretty cool. Posting this from it now. But it can't access the reader.mac.com site.
Perhaps they are waiting until tomorrow evening.
James Tauber on June 28, 2007:
Correction: by default iPhoney doesn't use iPhone user-agent string. Once I tell it to, I get the same behaviour as buge describes above: redirect to http://www.apple.com/iphone/
So I'd say the user-agent is working, they just haven't launched the site yet.
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Last Modified: June 30, 2007
Author: James Tauber
buge on June 28, 2007:
I set my user-agent to
"Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A542a Safari/419.3"
and all it did was to redirect me to
http://www.apple.com/iphone/
Did anybody have more success? I'll try again after the iPhone is released. Maybe the page just isn't up yet.