Browser Creation

How hard would it be to create a small browser with cookie handling and a Mobile useragent like LGE-VX8500/1.0 UP.Browser/6.2.3.2(GUI)MMP/2.0 ? Would it take a long time or no?

im no expert, but once you have saved all the right info, and set it so to send the right data, there shouldnt be to much trouble in making a simple one…

Have you tried googling this?

i just searched "creating a simple browser tutorial" in google (no quotes), it returned a list of nice looking replys…

It doesnt show cookie handling nor does it show defining the browsers User Agent.

what do you want to create it in? and how many of the links did you check? 0.o

Not sure what to create it in yet. Checked 17 links. After that they just got stupider and stupider.

well then google is your friend, just try more specific searches to work out whats best to make it in, i saw a couple for vb on the 1st page, but any language should really be up to it.

maybe if you started in which language, it would be helpful. But most of languages will have such thing already implemented, e.g perl–>WWW::Mechanize or LWP

Well, I made a simple one before…

Had cookie handling and what not….

User agent thing, I'm not 100% sure about that….

Here is a thread containing the source for mine… Maybe it will give you an idea….

I still haven't gotten around to fixing it, and adding some more features…

You probably don't want to use an HTTP lib for a browser. Just use raw sockets. That way, you will either learn a protocol or just have some fun practice with it. The hardest part about this would be implementing SSL and parsing the HTML.

I've done a simple tabbed web browser prog in C#, but never had to "handle cookies" or change the user-agent. If you do decide to use .Net for it, the WebRequest and WebResponse objects would probably give you the functionality for changing the user-agent. Since it's not clear what your goal is with "handling cookies", I don't really have any input on that.

Now, for the obvious question: Why doesn't FF with the User Agent Switcher extension work for what you're doing?

If I knew why I would tell you the answer. For some reason FF still gets detected by the site im trying to view. If the useragent isnt the answer on how this site detects a mobile browser from a regular browser than I dont know what is.

Froger wrote: If the useragent isnt the answer on how this site detects a mobile browser from a regular browser than I dont know what is. Viewport size? Have you tried using a PDA emulator, such as the ones that are available for Windows Mobile developers or iPhone developers?