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Hey Blackberry, do you get paid for Bandwidth burned on data networks?

Requests from:

User-Agent: BlackBerry8530/5.0.0.886 Profile/MIDP-2.1 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/105

Accept: application/vnd.rim.html,text/html,application/xhtml+xml,
application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml,text/vnd.sun.j2me.app-descriptor,
image/vnd.rim.png,image/jpeg,application/xvnd.rim.pme.b,
application/vnd.rim.ucs,image/gif;anim=1,application/vnd.rim.jscriptc;
v=0-8-72,application/x-javascript,application/vnd.rim.css;v=2,text/css;
media=screen,application/vnd.wap.wmlc;q=0.9,application/vnd.wap.wmlscriptc;q=0.7,
text/vnd.wap.wml;q=0.7,*/*;q=0.5

We prefer a number of content-types, but, if worse comes to worse, we’ll accept everything anyhow.

440 bytes transmitted on EVERY request made from a Blackberry when you could have just done:

Accept: */*

and saved 428 bytes PER request.

This particular page had 97 assets, amounting to almost 32k in wasted bandwidth sending headers to the CDN.

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2 Responses to “Hey Blackberry, do you get paid for Bandwidth burned on data networks?”

  1. cd34 Says:
    January 5th, 2012 at 1:36 pm

    Nokia appears to be doing something similar:

    User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.2; U; Series60/3.1 
NokiaE63-1/100.21.110; Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 ) 
AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413

    Accept: text/html,text/css,multipart/mixed,application/java-archive, 
application/java, application/x-java-archive, text/vnd.sun.j2me.app-descriptor, 
application/vnd.oma.drm.message, application/vnd.oma.drm.content, 
application/vnd.oma.dd+xml, application/vnd.oma.drm.rights+xml, 
application/vnd.oma.drm.rights+wbxml, application/x-nokia-widget, */*
  2. cd34 Says:
    January 5th, 2012 at 1:52 pm

    From the department of redundancy department:

    User-Agent: Cricket-A310/1.0 UP.Browser/6.3.0.7 (GUI) MMP/2.0

    Accept: */*,application/vnd.oma.dd+xml, application/vnd.phonecom.mmc-xml, 
application/vnd.wap.wmlc;type=4365, application/vnd.wap.wmlscriptc, 
application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml, application/xhtml+xml;
profile="http://www.wapforum.org/xhtml", multipart/mixed, multipart/related, 
text/html, text/plain, text/vnd.wap.wml;type=4365, audio/mid, audio/midi, 
audio/x-mid, audio/x-midi, audio/qcelp, audio/vnd.qcelp, audio/qcp, audio/mp3, 
audio/mpeg, audio/wav, audio/x-wav, audio/aac, audio/pmd, audio/x-pmd, 
audio/vnd.pmd, application/x-pmd, application/vnd.pmd, audio/evrc, 
application/vnd.oma.drm.message, image/bmp, image/gif, image/jpeg, 
image/jpg, image/png, image/vnd.wap.wbmp, text/css, text/css, image/*, 
application/javascript, application/vbscript, */*

    */* at the beginning, */* at the end just to make sure.

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