Comments on: iPhone/iPad – Get User-Agent for UIWebView http://blog.sallarp.com/iphone-ipad-get-user-agent-for-uiwebview/ Code, Code, Revolution! Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:50:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Björn Sållarp http://blog.sallarp.com/iphone-ipad-get-user-agent-for-uiwebview/comment-page-1/#comment-43495 Björn Sållarp Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:03:48 +0000 http://blog.sallarp.com/?p=1003#comment-43495 @Trott In most cases you should definitely set your own user agent. However, sometimes you want to impersonate the real Safari browser user agent and avoid hard-coding the user agent into the app. Though, I have noticed that since writing this blog post the UIWebView will not always return the user agent of Safari. In some iOS versions they have differed slightly. // Björn @Trott

In most cases you should definitely set your own user agent. However, sometimes you want to impersonate the real Safari browser user agent and avoid hard-coding the user agent into the app. Though, I have noticed that since writing this blog post the UIWebView will not always return the user agent of Safari. In some iOS versions they have differed slightly.

// Björn

]]> By: Trott http://blog.sallarp.com/iphone-ipad-get-user-agent-for-uiwebview/comment-page-1/#comment-43490 Trott Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:53:26 +0000 http://blog.sallarp.com/?p=1003#comment-43490 This is great; thanks for sharing it! I tried this and it hung for me when using URLWithString:@"www.google.com". I changed it to a complete URL (URLWithString:@"http://www.example.com/" and all was well. @Greg Combs: Your one-liner will work great if you don't mind getting the user agent after the fact. Björn's technique is useful though if you want to retrieve the user agent ahead of time so you can, for example, tack on your own app's identifier (which, I believe, is valid and correct behavior). This is great; thanks for sharing it!

I tried this and it hung for me when using URLWithString:@”www.google.com”. I changed it to a complete URL (URLWithString:@”http://www.example.com/” and all was well.

@Greg Combs: Your one-liner will work great if you don’t mind getting the user agent after the fact. Björn’s technique is useful though if you want to retrieve the user agent ahead of time so you can, for example, tack on your own app’s identifier (which, I believe, is valid and correct behavior).

]]> By: UIWebView user-agent weirdness and how to change user-agent value programmatically | blog.sallarp.com http://blog.sallarp.com/iphone-ipad-get-user-agent-for-uiwebview/comment-page-1/#comment-16184 UIWebView user-agent weirdness and how to change user-agent value programmatically | blog.sallarp.com Sun, 05 Dec 2010 20:48:57 +0000 http://blog.sallarp.com/?p=1003#comment-16184 [...] change between requests the authenticated session will terminate. That’s why I wrote about how to extract the user-agent string from UIWebView earlier. In “Mitt Saldo” i make authentication requests using ASIHttpRequest and for [...] [...] change between requests the authenticated session will terminate. That’s why I wrote about how to extract the user-agent string from UIWebView earlier. In “Mitt Saldo” i make authentication requests using ASIHttpRequest and for [...]

]]> By: Greg Combs http://blog.sallarp.com/iphone-ipad-get-user-agent-for-uiwebview/comment-page-1/#comment-13690 Greg Combs Sat, 25 Sep 2010 18:47:52 +0000 http://blog.sallarp.com/?p=1003#comment-13690 I should add that I store that string in the delegate once per startup, then I send it to my analytics tracker, (in my case Localytics) as a tagged event ... that way I can update my served web pages back home. I should add that I store that string in the delegate once per startup, then I send it to my analytics tracker, (in my case Localytics) as a tagged event … that way I can update my served web pages back home.

]]> By: Greg Combs http://blog.sallarp.com/iphone-ipad-get-user-agent-for-uiwebview/comment-page-1/#comment-13689 Greg Combs Sat, 25 Sep 2010 18:43:25 +0000 http://blog.sallarp.com/?p=1003#comment-13689 I just drop this in my webview delegate, in webViewDidFinishLoad: NSString *userAgent = [self.m_webView.request valueForHTTPHeaderField:@"User-Agent"]; I just drop this in my webview delegate, in webViewDidFinishLoad:

NSString *userAgent = [self.m_webView.request valueForHTTPHeaderField:@"User-Agent"];

]]> By: iPhone/iPad – Wait for asynchronous tasks to complete | blog.sallarp.com http://blog.sallarp.com/iphone-ipad-get-user-agent-for-uiwebview/comment-page-1/#comment-12487 iPhone/iPad – Wait for asynchronous tasks to complete | blog.sallarp.com Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:36:09 +0000 http://blog.sallarp.com/?p=1003#comment-12487 [...] a rare case but sometimes you need to do this. I used this techinque in my previous post on how to extract the user-agent string from a UIWebView. Check it out for a more complete [...] [...] a rare case but sometimes you need to do this. I used this techinque in my previous post on how to extract the user-agent string from a UIWebView. Check it out for a more complete [...]

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