browscap cache data URL changed! [#2232795]

Effective March 30, 2014, the URL to retrieve the browscap data has been changed. The old one is now GONE! This means any new installations of Browscap module will not work; sites will likely have a runtime error similar to the one that I got from my theme:

Notice: Undefined index: ismobiledevice in at_get_browser() (line 217 of /var/www/html/sites/all/themes/adaptivetheme/at_core/inc/get.inc).

I wasn't able to update the documentation page for this module so I'm filing a support request here because there will be others who will have the same problem I did!

To update the URLs, modify this module's import.inc and change the following 2 lines:

$current_version = drupal_http_request('http://tempdownloads.browserscap.com/versions/version-number.php');

$current_version = drupal_http_request('http://browscap.org/version-number');

and

$browscap_data = drupal_http_request('http://tempdownloads.browserscap.com/stream.php?BrowsCapINI');

$browscap_data = drupal_http_request('http://browscap.org/stream?q=BrowsCapINI');

Comments

Comment #1

megan_m commented 4 April 2014 at 21:16

If you're getting the error "WD browscap: Couldn't check version: Gone", this is most likely the problem.

I can confirm that the above changes work.

Comment #2

jackalope commented 11 April 2014 at 01:20

Thanks for the tip--that change works for me too!

Comment #3

christiemade commented 22 April 2014 at 15:06

This fixed the "WD browscap: Couldn't check version: Gone" error for me, but resulted in a parsing error.

Parsing error was fixed by changing this line:
$browscap_data = drupal_http_request('http://browscap.org/stream?q=BrowsCapINI');
To this:
$browscap_data = drupal_http_request('http://browscap.org/stream?q=PHP_BrowsCapINI');