It is an instance of the wkwebview class, which inherits the uiview class. What is uiwebview used for and are some people misusing it. For a breakdown of changes to the string in gecko 2. 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. The browser is developed by apple inc and renders web pages using the webkit engine. This document describes the user agent string used in firefox 4 and later and applications based on gecko 2. Complete list of ios useragent strings enterprise ios. Wkwebview default useragent changed apple developer. Please note that these are very stockstandard chrome user agents and certainly dont. In objective c, we retrieve the useragent by creating a webview. How to detect webview android and uiwebview ios free. This is a listing of only some of the most popular ones.
A step by step guide of how to compose user agent strings or both android and ios that use a hybrid webview. My app is native ios app and it uses uiwebview to load html pages and its returning wrong useragent string on ipad pro as below. Setting a custom useragent in the uwp webview control. For example, a user string of appleipad3c4 is an ipad, 4th generation, wifi only. Does uiwebview send the same useragent in the request. Customize the user agent in webview ios repro documentation. 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. Correctly form useragents for webview apps scientiamobile. In order to get an understanding of which mobile browsers use your site, you need to know their useragent strings. Sending a custom string along with the existing user agent. In this example, the user agent string is mobile safaris version. The conventional wisdom is that ios devices have a user agent for safari and a user agent for the uiwebview. My app makes a request to a server using nsdata initwithcontentsofurl.
It allows a developer to add web content to their apps. Find lists of user agent strings from browsers, crawlers, spiders, bots, validators and. This information typically passes the name and version of the browser among many other details. The following code example assigns the type identification of the requesting browser to a string variable. I am looking for a list of all ios products with their agent strings. The perils of ios user agent strings artsy engineering. Every time i visit a webpage in my app app ios keeps added in the user agent, but i am looking for only once how many ever times i open webpage.
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. Web requests made from uiwebview will not include the word safari in the user agent string. An iphone 6 plus cdma would be an appleiphone7c1 and so on. I tried to change user agent using nsmutableurlrequest in the uiwebview delegate function, but didnt work. The ultimate guide to wkwebview hacking with swift. A browsers user agent string ua helps identify which browser is being used, what version, and on which operating system. The standard way to pass information to the server about the visiting device is to include it in the useragent ua string. Download whole our database of 31,162,267 user agents. I want to change user agent of every request from uiwebview to the same like coming from safari browser. Uiwebview on ipad pro sends wrong useragent string. Safari user agent strings safari click on any string to get more details safari 7. Lets say you need to display a web page in your app. I am looking for a list of user agent strings by device not browser, etc. Without the ability to change the webview user agent string, it would be a lot harder to differentiate webview traffic.
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. Get an analysis of your or any other user agent string. Changing the user agent string of a webview is simple. Google chrome runs on a variety of operating systems and platforms, so while the version number tends to be fairly similar across platforms, the actual structure of it can be quite varied here we have the latest user agents for chrome on a variety of popular platforms. How can i set the useragent header of a uiwebview in swift. I have got a simple viewcontroller with an embedded uiwebview. Thats where steps in we decode your user agent string.
It seems in the ios 10 betas, the default useragent sent by wkwebview has changed. User agent strings a browsers user agent string ua helps identify which browser is being used, what version, and on which operating system. List of mobile browser useragent strings deviceatlas. There is a web frame view object per web frame object used to display the frame content. Uiwebview is a user interface control used in ios applications. Understand what information is contained in a user agent string. If you allow the user to move back and forward through the webpage history, then you can use the go back and go forward methods as actions for buttons. The web server can then choose to send customized content to that device. A browsers user agent string ua helps identify which browser is. In the following well demonstrate how to compose the user agent for webview based applications. Its purpose is to identify the the program or application making a request for web content. Use the can go back and can go forward properties to disable the buttons when the user cant move in a direction. You would create a uiwebview and tell it to load that page. Weve got 549,287 safari user agents in our database.
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