iPhone UIWebView user agent

aahmed753 · 09-28-2008, 11:34 PM

Hi, I was just wondering if one can change the default user agent for UIWebView. The default is "WebApps/1.0 CFNetwork/339.3 Darwin/9.4.1"

I want it to be actual iPhone user agent, which is: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0

Any idea how to do that? thanks

kusolito · 02-14-2009, 08:40 PM

Have you got this working? I want to do the similar thing.

lbendlin · 02-14-2009, 10:45 PM

You could fetch the data manually through a HTTP POST or GET request and then feed the result into the UIWebView.

kusolito · 02-15-2009, 12:30 AM

Actually I wanted to overrride the user-agent string in the request header. I tried to do that using NSMutableURLRequest in the UIWebViewDelegate function, but didn't work. I am a newbie to Objective-C and iphone app so maybe I missed something. Please help!

lbendlin · 02-15-2009, 08:38 AM

I was giving you the alternative, as what you are trying to do is not possible with UIWebView directly

lopezpa · 02-06-2012, 02:15 AM

Involves setting a user default:

Easily set the User-Agent in a UIWebView | MPHWeb

Hope this helps others out there.