Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) provides an online railway ticket booking facility but thanks to the sheer traffic to this website the service is busy and unresponsive most of the time.
The trick is to use the mobile website of IRCTC to book your tickets, the mobile website loads faster and is very simple to use letting us get our reservation fast and easy.
The trick is to use the mobile website of IRCTC to book your tickets, the mobile website loads faster and is very simple to use letting us get our reservation fast and easy.
- To get this working on your desktop computer install the "user Agent Switcher" addon for Firefox or Chrome.
- Now, change your browser identification string (user-agent) to a mobile one, like iPhone.
- Your desktop web-browser (Firefox or Chrome) is now recognizable as a mobile browser, open https://www.irctc.co.in/mobile website now and you should get the mobile website.
- Use the simple, clutter-free, fast loading navigation to complete the booking.
- This is something definitely better then the slower desktop website, also it seems a different server is used to cater to mobile users resulting in faster access to all the information from backend.
