We’re not acting as a block. Our key aim is to offer a similar experience on the mobile Web as the PC-based Web. In doing that there is a white list which people can apply for.
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We’re not acting as a block. Our key aim is to offer a similar experience on the mobile Web as the PC-based Web. In doing that there is a white list which people can apply for.
Interesting confluence of problems. I think the problem is with the folks running mobile sites relying on the user-agent string.
It does actually look like a bit of an over-reaction from the mobile application developers - the user agent string is changed, but the original user agent is still being passed as a custom header. If that's breaking your app it shouldn't be too much work to add a check for the custom header. It's also reasonable for Vodafone to claim that their proxy thing needs to change the user agent since the whole point of the proxy is to translate web pages designed for desktop browsers in to pages that work for mobile phones.
The whitelist thing is creepy though.