Getting MSISDN from mobile browser headers

Question

What is the best way of going about this? I need to get MSISDN data from users accessing a mobisite to enhance the user experience. I understand not all gateways would populate the headers entirely, but would wish to have MSISDN capture as option one before falling back on a cookie based model

Answer 1

I know this is an old post, but I'd like to give my contribution.

I work for a mobile carrier and here we have a feature that you can set some parameteres for header enrichment. We create some filters to match certain traffic passing through the GGSN (GPRS gateway node) then it opens the packages at layer 7 (when application layer is HTTP - not protected with SSL) and write msisdn, imsi and other parameters inside it.

So it is a carrier-depending feature.

Answer 2

While some operators do this, the representation and mechanism depends entirely on the operator. There is no standard way to do this.