WAP is the Wireless Application Protocol technology in Networks that is used to provide mobile contents in mobile browsers. Generally we can’t see the mobile WAP sites on Computer browsers because they can’t understand the Wireless Markup Language. I have met this problem on my Firefox browser when I want to download a movie for my mobile in a WAP site. Here I show you a simple trick to how to access WAP sites on Firefox with User Agent Switcher add-on.
What is User Agent?
User Agent is a software agent that is working on behalf of a user for some works like browsing, mail reading on the network. For example, we use Outlook for reading emails is the Mail User Agent. We use Firefox for browsing is the Web User Agent. Generally browsers send requests to network with HTTP headers that contains User Agent string. So changing the Firefox User Agent to other mobile browser agent will work as the mobile browser.
Install User Agent Switcher on Firefox
Go to User Agent add-on website and click on Add to Firefox. After installing, restart your browser once. Then go to Tools menu -> Default User Agent
You will see the list of some browsers like IE, Search Robots and iPhone 3.0. If you want see the WAP content only, simply select the iPhone Agent. Then refresh the page once again, you will get the WAP site instantly on your firefox. If you want to browse the web pages in normal method, select the Default User Agent menu to revert back the settings.
You can switch through any user agents on anytime and you can add various types of user agents like Opera Mini, Skyfire, Bolt, Nokia s60. Click on Edit User Agents on the menu -> "New" button to add your favorite user agents. For this you have to get User Agent Strings of various browsers.
To get user agent strings for all browsers, crawlers, Email clients, consoles, Offline browsers, Feed readers and link checkers here.
What is User Agent?
User Agent is a software agent that is working on behalf of a user for some works like browsing, mail reading on the network. For example, we use Outlook for reading emails is the Mail User Agent. We use Firefox for browsing is the Web User Agent. Generally browsers send requests to network with HTTP headers that contains User Agent string. So changing the Firefox User Agent to other mobile browser agent will work as the mobile browser.
Install User Agent Switcher on Firefox
Go to User Agent add-on website and click on Add to Firefox. After installing, restart your browser once. Then go to Tools menu -> Default User Agent
You can switch through any user agents on anytime and you can add various types of user agents like Opera Mini, Skyfire, Bolt, Nokia s60. Click on Edit User Agents on the menu -> "New" button to add your favorite user agents. For this you have to get User Agent Strings of various browsers.
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