GrigoryPtashko

Hello.

I am completely new to mobile WAP/WEB sites development. I am analyzing some mobile content delivery platform which I am going to implement. My question is: Is it possible to uniqly identify the specific mobile device that is visiting the site whether it is a WAP 2.0 device or a smartphone with a usual WEB browser? And later use this info to know that this specific device has already been on my site.

I see some means:

1. Usual telephone number (MSISDN) which is I suppose is a confidential information and is not passed to a WAP/WEB server. I think I cannot get it "for free".
2. IMEI of the mobile device. This looks interesting but the question is IS the IMEI passed somehow to a WAP/WEB server from a mobile device? If yes then I can save it and later identify a device against my IMEI DB.
3. Any other means which I do not know yet?

Sorry for chatter but I am not new to software development. I first google then ask but now I just don't understand from what side to come to this problem.

Thanks in advance,
Grigory.

takeshi

You'd have better luck in developer forum. The browser should identify itself unless it's presenting itself as a different browser. Generally, there's nothing sent to the web server to specifically identify the device model or even the individual device.