Re: different response for mobile and desktop requests

Do people still do this? I thought you just used different CSS according to
"media type". I guess it depends on the site.

Anyway, you'll have to inspect headers. CherryPy won't do this
automatically. You can use a custom dispatcher to do that if you want the
handlers to be separate, but if you're only varying the output, I'd create
a new tool to look at headers and respond with the correct templatized
html. (This would make a great contribution back to the community, but we
no longer have a tools wiki, so I don't know where it should go.)

I'd make the tool run at before_handler and set something on the
cherrypy.request object that tells what the requested layout is.

Then, assuming you're using a templating system like Mako for your HTML
Output, I'd fork the mako template tool you're using, and based on the
layout value written to the request object by the other tool, chooses a
template file from the appropriate place. Maybe you take a dictionary of
media-types/layouts to filenames instead of a single template kwarg, or you
use a placeholder in the filename that is substituted at runtime. Up to
you. Of course if you're using some other template system, substitute
accordingly.

Then enable the new tool for every handler, either through the decorator
(nah) or through config.

On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 7:36 PM Andrew <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to serve different html depending on whether the request
> comes from a mobile or a desktop device. Is this possible with cherrypy?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Andrew
>
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