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Is it possible for a web server to know which type of device request has been received from?
For example, can a create a website which shows different contents if request came from a computer (Firefox) and something different if it came from iPhone?
The way is the User Agent header, as has been said. You best use a list like this one to find out which mobile is it.
When I had to do something like it I stored the unknown received User Agents in a table to find out later about the ones I didn’t have stored and thus wasn’t able to know for sure what to serve.