A question to all Mobile pundits
by Stii
I’ve got a question for or mobile developers. Why does mobile phones like the Nokia 6110 Navigator and Nokia E65 set a cookie named $Version when you access sites with the phone? Its not a cookie that gets set by the site, that much I know. It seems as if the browser sets that cookie.
I read the following which does not help much: S60 Platform: Web Browser Product Description. It is a brilliant document if ever you need it, it simply didn’t answer this specific question for me.
I don’t really have much more time to spend researching the problem, so I thought I’ll try to crowdsource the answer… Hopefully someone has an answer, otherwise I’ll have to digg deeper :( Trying my luck and being lazy! ;-)
UPDATE:
The content of the cookie is 1
Maybe that $Version cookie contains the phone version (phone versions are unique per country and per operator!) ?
Or perhaps its the browser version? Or neither.
Mobile operators are known to wipe request headers maybe this is Nokia’s kind way of making sure their “version” no’s get thru the proxies?
I think i posed more questions than answers :-)
Slacker, yes, that makes sense. Why for the love of Johnathan Livingston Seagull have it as $Version instead of just Version?! I updated the post. The value stored in the cookie is 1. I see the OS is SymbianOS/9.1 so maybe it is just that!
This is awesome, I’ve heard a number of people talking about this recently and I would also love to know the answer.
I’ll pop my mobile developer contacts a line :)
Thanks Chris, that would be most kind!