Please perform the customization once only during the app launch and before any instantiation of uiwebview or wkwebview. Doesnt the user agent simply identify the type of browser. So if your detection script is looking for mobile already, it may also be sending ipad users to your iphonemobile optimized site. However, some requests from uiwebview use this user agent string mozilla5.
Ive updated the original post and set it to resolved. Facebook identifies itself with several fb strings. Jun 28, 2012 allow overriding of useragent on uiwebview problem for some use cases it is necessary to modify the user agent that uiwebview sends towards the server to get a different version of the content. Retrieve device and webview user agent strings for android and ios devices. You would create a uiwebview and tell it to load that page. I think the case i was seeing was an embedded uiwebview inside an. How to set custom user agent in android webview zids world. When displaying a uiwebview in a uiviewcontroller it will show the first uiwebview object only. Our latest safari user agent page will show you the user agents for the most recent versions of safari. A step by step guide of how to compose user agent strings or both android and ios that use a. Customize the user agent in webview ios repro documentation. To achieve this aim, you first need to declare a delegate for the uiwebview. To set a custom user agent, we need define the user agent in a string, then pass the string to setuseragentstringyour string name here. It seems in the ios 10 betas, the default useragent sent by wkwebview has changed.
Im using a uiwebview in my iphone application, and read the data page from my application bundle. It also provides you with simple building blocks for generating your own user agent string. We see that, webview user agent string contains string version. To append a custom string at the and of the default user agent you can use applicationnameforuseragent property. In the text, i decided to add a contact link to a live webpage using the standard html anchor. In the following well demonstrate how to compose the user agent for webview based applications. Browse other questions tagged ios swift uiwebview useragent nsurlrequest or ask your own question. Does uiwebview send the same useragent in the request. Apr 28, 2020 retrieve device and webview user agent strings for android and ios devices. Dont rely on the specific chrome version number for example. You can use the wkweb view class to embed web content in your app. Example user agent strings mobile free online tutorials. Without the ability to change the webview useragent string, it would be a lot harder to differentiate webview traffic. Array client array type mobile app name facebook version 26.
In addition to html content, uiweb view objects can be used to display other content types, such as keynote, pdf, and pages documents. A good tip here is to execute the above once, and assign it to a variable the useragent string is not going to change during the execution of your app, and it is more efficient than performing an instantiation of a uiwebview often, just to get the same string. The base of the useragent is the default useragent as provided by the platforms sdk, and then app and device information is appended. Setting a custom useragent in the uwp webview control. In testing with the ipad pro, the user agent string is being reported as. It allows a developer to add web content to their apps. In the following well demonstrate how to compose the useragent for webview based applications. In the activity of the webview, create a new string, string myua mozilla5. Weve got 524,023 safari user agents in our database. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only.
But if anybody wants to answer why changing the user agent fixed the issue, that would be great because i still dont understand that. If you want to append to the existing user agent string useful for helping dynamic webpages that adapt to the user agent, then you can use the following. How to set custom user agent for a webview in windows 10. Correctly form useragents for webview apps scientiamobile. And this in turn means that we can tell, for example, that a certain portion of traffic came via the twitter webview, and some other portion came with facebook webview.
However, this article shares a security flaw of uiwebview, with a simple demo to show how we use uiwebview to grab users info such as id, name, encrypted password, etc. Can you post what the uiwebview uses as its user agent string. If you go back using the navigation then go back into the uiviewcontroller with the multiple uiwebview objects then they will all show up. Changing the useragent string of a webview is simple. Such scenarios where we needed that included opening a special version of an online shopping bag or opening the fullversion of facebook instead of the.
Lets say you need to display a web page in your app. For example, a chrome browser on an iphone 6 will introduce itself using a different ua than a safari browser on the same phone. By continuing to browse this site, you agree to this use. The principle is to set the user agent permanently in the user settings. Thats where steps in we decode your user agent string to figure out everything its saying.
The perils of ios user agent strings artsy engineering. For the best rendering of plain and rich text in your app, however, you should use uitext view instead. The browser is developed by apple inc and renders web pages using the webkit engine. From that point on, any webview inside your app will use the specified useragent string myapp1. However, some requests from uiwebview use this useragent string mozilla5.
Sep 06, 2012 a good tip here is to execute the above once, and assign it to a variable the user agent string is not going to change during the execution of your app, and it is more efficient than performing an instantiation of a uiwebview often, just to get the same string. A browsers user agent string ua helps identify which browser is being used, what version, and on which operating system. Uiwebview and safari renders differently macrumors forums. When feature detection apis are not available, use the ua to customize behavior or content to specific browser versions. The base of the user agent is the default user agent as provided by the platforms sdk, and then app and device information is appended. There are millions of user agent combinations given that uas change with the software and hardware.
This site uses cookies for analytics, personalized content and ads. Having an identifiable webview useragent string specific to your app opens up opportunities for web publishers and advertisers to deliver tailored content specifically targeting your app. Feb 14, 2009 i tried to change user agent using nsmutableurlrequest in the uiwebview delegate function, but didnt work. When you create the request to send you should set the useragent. Uiwebview on ipad pro sends wrong useragent string. We have over 14750 user agents for webview based browser which you can browse and explore. Theres no standard way of writing a user agent string, so different web browsers use different formats some are wildly different, and many web browsers cram loads of information into their user agents. Mobileb143 5844012048 if i use safari instead, then i get. I want to make hybridapp so i added webview and custom renderer webviewrenderer i want to add user agent before load start. I want to change user agent of every request from uiwebview to the same like coming from safari browser. This is a listing of only some of the most popular ones. Web requests made from uiwebview will not include the word safari in the user agent string. Jan 14, 20 changing the user agent to mobile safari fixed it.
Dont rely on the specific chrome version number for example, 30. Examples include the twitter app which brings up links in tweets rather than opening them in safari. The receivers application name that is used in the useragent string. My app is native ios app and it uses uiwebview to load html pages and its returning wrong user agent string on ipad pro as below mozilla5.
Sending a custom string along with the existing user agent. Annelise hassenklover this code does not affect the passed in request which is not mutable and its not returned to anywhere. Webview useragent strings are a bit of a mess right now, but it would be very easy to clean them up. Download whole our database of 28,893,521 user agents. Apr, 2015 this is, after all, what the useragent string is meant for. To do so, create a wkweb view object, set it as the view, and send it a request to load web content.
Useragent detection inside ios app uiwebview gives the wrong. Security flaw with uiwebview ios app development medium. Wkwebview default useragent changed apple developer forums. The cruddy thing about the ipad user agent string is that it has the word mobile in it. When a visitor comes from inside an ios app when a page is loaded into a uiwebview, piwik detects the browser as safari, but the version is. Uiwebview is a user interface control used in ios applications.
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