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[Stefan Winter <stefan.winter AT restena.lu>]

Hi,

> It looks like Safari presents itself as:
> Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 6_1_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26
> (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10B329 Safari/8536.25
> 
> While the others as:
> 
> Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 6_1_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26
> (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/10B329

Good to know! We also have our own mobileconfig files at RESTENA,
unrelated to eduroam in any way, and I've verified that they suffer the
same problem. Even more so, our access logs show that some users did
come along with the embedded mini-browser; which helps explain some
spurious "it doesn't work!!!" calls we got and couldn't make sense of.

So; let's conclude that the embedded browser is just too buggy to handle
.mobileconfig files - and that a warning to that end on the download
page would be nice.

> The "Safari" string could be used to display a warning to the user (if
> missing)

Apple could also have had the decency of adding an own application tag
to identify the embedded browser by the presence of a string, not its
absence, but well.

> Of course in version 1.1 we will have server-side system recognition
> therefore the user would be shown the proper download link at once.

Meaning... you would check the UA, and if it's the known-broken one,
immediately tell the user "We know you have an i*, but come back with a
real browser please"? Sounds pretty good to me.

Stefan

> 
> Tomasz
> 
> 
> 
> W dniu 2013-08-29 10:58, Stefan Winter pisze:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> If you use an iPhone you can test this at cat.eduroam.pl -  small
>>> "Download" link under the big button.
>> Hm, I see. Well then we're running astoundingly short on options. I
>> think the only thing we can do is document that Safari should be used;
>> and an advice for those who put the QR codes on printed material that
>> the QR code stuff doesn't always work the way it should and they should
>> prepare for user queries. :-(
>>
>> In the past, I loathed at QR codes; and only added them to CAT because
>> it was easy, and had the vague hope that some might find them useful.
>> Stories like this one prove in my mind that I was right and this whole
>> QR is pretty much nonsense :-)
>>
>> Stefan
>>
>>
> 


-- 
Stefan WINTER
Ingenieur de Recherche
Fondation RESTENA - Réseau Téléinformatique de l'Education Nationale et
de la Recherche
6, rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi
L-1359 Luxembourg

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