If a user is writing a web application for mobile phones and needs to know the capabilities of a. Compares the major measures, licencing models and costs associated with 51degrees, deviceatlas and scientiamobiles wurfl product. If the file is autoloadable, you can also specify an empty configuration in order to utilize the adapter. The wurfl is an ambitious configuration file that contains. Wurfl direct download gets gzip support scientiamobile. Wurfl wireless universal resource file is an xml configuration file which contains information about capabilities and features of almost all wireless devices in the world. Configuration there is a usage example included with the php api in the examplesdemo folder. Net api has been released recently by scientiamobilethe. If there is a newer version of the file at the wurfl url, or if the locally cached file does not exist, then the module will get the. Download and configure the php library from its homepage. All you need to do is enter the request uris in your browser address bar along with authentication parameters apikey, authtoken, scope and press enter.
Apple makes detection of specific models of iphone and ipad very difficult. The wurfl xml file is above 4mb, and despite many structural optimizations, processing it on every request will certainly slow down your server. Replace wurfl php api with databaseedition wurfl api. Over 15 years, scientiamobile has developed an efficient data structure and welltuned api search algorithms, delivering highperformance device detection that does not. Due to the organizational restructuring of the team that developed and supported the mobile device browser file, we will no longer have the resources to support and update this codeplex project. Detecting devices using wurfl infuze haproxy enterprise 1. Net download wurfl is a set of proprietary application programming interfaces and an xml configuration file which contains information about device capabilities and features for a variety of mobile devices. Haproxy can download periodically a new version of the xml database during. People with a nonstandard wurfl api can bundle it with their own product, add an older version of wurfl the april 2011 version, for example and advise users that they can get an updated file from the wurfl site.
Unpack it in any directory that your phpenabled web server can access. Many wurfl users may not know how critical it is to keep the api up to date. What i discovered is that the standard wurfl php api is kind of crap and not very performant. The wscompile tool generates stubs, ties, serializers, and wsdl files used in java api for xml jax rpc clients and services. In august 2011, we introduced the wurfl direct download url. While i was quite pleased to see the terawurfl and wurfl projects combine and become agpl licensed, i was quite surprised when the xml file the file that contains all the data about mobile devices and. We match our api versions to our data file versions so if your api version starts with 3. Wurfl file global patch file local, appspecific the patch file is a small xml file that can enrich wurfl data. Wurfl is a set of proprietary apis and an xml configuration file which contains information about device capabilities and features for a variety of mobile devices. Using wurfl for mobile device detection and capabilities. This class can parse wurlf xml files to lookup for the capabilities of mobile device given its user agent string. This is only a 32k download and one its installed you can update the wurfl.
Detect mobile devices with wurfl in websites and mobile apps. Generating stubs wscompile mobile clients can use the stub generator to access web services. Download the following library and resource from the wurfl website. We will continue to offer the wurfl onsite apis free of charge via the scientiamobile site to all who use the api under the affero gpl version 3 agpl v3 license. This service allows you to make requests to wurfl servers without having to store the wurfl xml file in your own server and get the latest data available. Licensed customers have access to the latest version of. Our wurfl device description repository an api and xml file provides. You should test your api key from this page by pasting it in the input box, then clicking test api key. Na as you can see, terawurfl is still the best choice for accuracy and performance. Please note the issue is with the datas license, which is no longer open source.
Wurfl is an opensource project which succeeds in filling the void left by these problems. Anyway, we are not really blocking third party wurfl apis. We decided to move the api downloads to our own scientiamobile site for greater control and consistency. Type the following at the command line to produce it. As the installation concludes, the device manager appears in the windows system tray. Detecting devices using wurfl infuze haproxy enterprise. The red lines in the configuration are the lines that import the wurfl module into nginx. The wurfl is an xml configuration file which contains information about capabilities and features of many mobile devices. Imageengine is an automatic image optimizer built on wurfl device detection. The wurfl file is scientiamobiles intellectual property. It checks to see if the locally cached version of the wurfl.
Once you do that, a dialog box will open which will prompt you to save the document. You can have as many as necessary, and the api applies them in the order they appear in the configuration file. From your web browser, you should go to the wurfl cloud clients examples folder. To initialize the wurlf lib you must download the last wurlf xml file.
The tool reads a configuration file, that specifies either a wsdl file, a model file, or a compiled service endpoint interface. Download a release archive from wurfl site and extract it to a directory suitable for your application. Terawurfl parses the wurfl database into a mysql database, and provides an api for querying that database for mobile device capabilies. The class can extract several types of details about a given mobile device, like the supported gui extensions, whether it supports wap, ring tone support, etc the class can parse a wurfl file and cache its information to avoid the parsing overhead next time the information is. Terawurfl may be even faster than these number indicate since the wurfl php. Wurfl is a data repository containing the descriptions of tens of thousands of mobile devices. Previously, all of our api downloads were hosted on. Manually download enhanced paid for data from 51degrees. Wurfl wireless universal resource file is a set of proprietary application programming interfaces apis and an xml configuration file which contains information about device.
A quick usage exampleafter you have created the wurfl. Wurfl will detect the device capabilities, including screen size and image format support, resize and optimize the image accordingly. To replace the spring mobile device module by the wurfl framework. To enable wurfl on your application you must register for a free account on and download the latest release from your file manager. Repository wurfl mobile device database by scientiamobile. Until this past week, the url has only returned the wurfl data in a zip archive, but we. Once registered, users will have access to download wurfl onsite components including api and xml files from within their account vault. Wurfl web service provides a restful interface to the wurfl database. Scientiamobile offers commercial users of wurfl weekly updates to the. If you neglect updating the api, you will miss out on several fronts. Download apis zohos list of download apis allows you to export documents, spreadsheets both private and public and presentations in different file formats.
It is very well documented how the inbuilt request. Net, or php is available under a 30 days evaluation license for users who have registered for an account. Downloads of a file using the url in the webcontentlink property. You will see the compatibility test script, which will verify that your configuration is compatible with the wurfl cloud client.
Once you have downloaded the latest release, extract the files to be accessible from your php. The api also performs rigorous caching, leading to excellent performance. It is formerly a foss which stands for free and open source software community effort focused on the problem of presenting content on the wide variety of wireless devices. To mark the fact that the wurfl file is now delivered to the community of wurfl adopters with a license, everyone who intends to download the file should observe that the following conditions now apply and accept those prior to deplyment or use of the wurfl file and data. Doubleclick the executable file to start the installation, and follow the prompts. I initially was quite happy to see a wurfl module for drupal. A copy of the wurfl infuze device detection database xml file. Generating stubs wscompile java platform micro edition. But having this available in a database will be best. Before we start you should download the needed files. To start using the api you need to set some configuration. To configure wurfl updater, you will need your personal wurfl snapshot url found in the scientiamobile customer vault. Download premium or enterprise data with a paid for licence key or login. Browser object has shortcomings in the mobile webapplication world here and here.
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