Question

I’m using the 51degrees API for mobile redirection: http://51degrees.codeplex.com/

• The desktop site is located at http://www.mydomain.com.
• The mobile site is located at http://m.mydomain.com.

When a mobile device is detected, using 51degrees, I am able to redirect from from any desktop page to the mobile homepage using the 51degrees configuration only. I.e. http://www.mydomain.com/somepage to http://m.somepage.com/default.

What I am unable to do is redirect to the same page, i.e. from http://www.mydomain.com/somepage to http://m.somepage.com/somepaage.

Is it possible to redirect to the same page?

Answer 1

Option 1: Use 51degrees for the mobile detection part only and wire up the redirect yourself. Remove the <redirect> element from your web.config and try something like this in your Global.asax file:

void Application_BeginRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (HttpContext.Current.Request.Browser.IsMobileDevice)
    {
        Response.Redirect("http://m.mydomain.com" + Request.RawUrl);
    }
}

Option 2: In the <redirect> element in the web.config file, add the property originalUrlAsQueryString=true. This will send a query string called origUrl to the mobile homepage giving you the option to redirect to the mobile version of the requested page.