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Mobile Filter
I created a filter, its role is to detect if the request comes from a mobile browser or not, and then redirect to the corresponding website.
The analysis of the request is managed by WURFL.
The redirection is no more a redirection in the sense that we have now a single url. According to the device requesting the content, we set the corresponding site definition. With this solution the content is rendered differently but the url stay the same.

Problems

What's next?

General improvement

• We could have more granularity in the mobile detection. For the moment, we detect if it's a mobile or not, but we could imagine to detect if it's a tablet, a smartphone, a mobile, ect.
  By defining more "mobile family", we should also define a site definition per family. The user experience would strongly be improved, each mobile family will have its own enhanced website.

Mobile Filter improvements:

• review the filter mechanism
• improve the way the WURFL repository is loaded
• improve the mobile browser test