How I stop Safari from opening the mobile websites on my Ipad

While that may work with the specific site are using, it is not a feasible workaround generally speaking. Many sites - at least well designed ones - will include browser detect on secondary and tertiary level pages as well. Best option is still an alternate browser such as iCab Mobile and a few others that allows your to set the browser ID and bypass the redirect altogether.

I had to solve that issue too because I had to access a webpage that was not 100% developed for mobiles, and my iPad was redirected to the mobile version. Although it was the website and its developers who should solve the problem, they were not very concerned about it.

How I solved it?

I didnt visit the default page of the site (the root of the website), as its first page contains the script that redirects mobile users to their mobile version.

Instead, I visited directly the target URL I searched for. Once in the normal version of the site, I can navigate it with no problems. The only thing I shouldt do is press the "home" button, as it will take me to the root page and my mobile device would be detected again.

Hope it hels!

I keep Atomic Web on my iPad for this purpose. In Atomic Web you can set the type of browser you want Atomic Web to report that you are using. I set mine to Internet Explorer. That way when I connect to a website that has an alternate Mobil site the site will not redirect me there. This is useful in this forum because with safari I cannot edit posts, use quoted passages but in Atomic web I can do those things.

Other browsers have similar functions. Visit the app store and search on browser.

Also keep in mind it does this for a reason.

The iPad can not handle "desktop" websites, reasons like lack of Flash support, blocked from uploading/downloading and many things we take for granted on our pc's.

The iPad forces mobile versions to prevent these issues by allowing developers to provide a lesser experience more geared towards phones/low power/neutered devices

That is determined by the website.

Safari on an iOS device is detected as a mobile browser when visiting a website. For websites that provide a full and mobile version, the mobile version will be provided when a mobile browser is detected by the website.

Such a website should include a show full version link or a always show full version link/option and if so, selecting this should be stored as a cookie so the full version will be provided when visiting the website with Safari on your iPad.

That is absolutely untrue. The iPad does not "force" mobile versions to be displayed, the site itself does that. Sites can opt to show a different layout to mobile devices with smaller screens, and sometimes will provide a link that lets you load the "regular" site.

James, you are right. You are stating the solution. I just did a walktrough.

As I see you have experience on iPad, I´d like to go off-topic for a second and see if you can help me out.

I am visiting an aspx site with my iPad. In one of the aspx pages there is a button "Export to excel". From windows PC I can export the excel. But from my iPad, I dont get the file (it doesnt open nor download it). I bought ReaddleDocs, and tried to do it with its internal browser. I couldnt get the file.

Do you think I will manage to do that?

Thanks

scousens wrote:

James, you are right. You are stating the solution. I just did a walktrough.

As I see you have experience on iPad, I´d like to go off-topic for a second and see if you can help me out.

I am visiting an aspx site with my iPad. In one of the aspx pages there is a button "Export to excel". From windows PC I can export the excel. But from my iPad, I dont get the file (it doesnt open nor download it). I bought ReaddleDocs, and tried to do it with its internal browser. I couldnt get the file.

Do you think I will manage to do that?

Thanks

No, the function you are referencing (I'm betting you are accessing a SharePoint site or similar CMS platform), requires Windows services to perform that function. As varjak stated, not even sure you could do it on Mac OSX, but certainly not on iOS. The issue is that you are not attempting to simply download a file, but actually generate it from the data source.

Solution.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/user-agent-browser-simply/id414229165

If you mean as opposed to the standard version, you really can't. There are some alternate browsers in the app store that allow for this, however.

Probably not. Most such sites depend on Windows-only code to generate the export, often requiring that Microsoft Office be installed, and can't be done even from a Mac, much less an iPad.

Regards.

Thanks for replies Varkaj and James!

I understand I have no other choice than using my notebook with windows for doing those things.

Thanks again.