Load iPhone web pages in iPad app.

[nathanl1192]

Hi Guys!

I have an iPad app in development, which is a web browser, however I want the browser to automatically load the iPhone (not iPad) version of sites entered in through the URL or search box.

Anyone know how?

Thanks,

Nathan

[dany_dev]

you need to change user agent, try as explained here
cocoa touch - Change User Agent in UIWebView (iPhone SDK) - Stack Overflow

[nathanl1192]

Originally Posted by dany_dev

you need to change user agent, try as explained here
cocoa touch - Change User Agent in UIWebView (iPhone SDK) - Stack Overflow

Thanks, but I am still confused. I do not know where to put the code, how to implement it... or even what part of the User Agent to use. Can anyone break this down into simple steps for me! Thanks.

Nathan

[dany_dev]

put in didLoad of your viewController that contain uiwebview

myWebview.delegate = self;

where myWebview is your webview.

now add this method

- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)req navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType {
    NSMutableURLRequest *request = (NSMutableURLRequest *)req;

    if ([request respondsToSelector:@selector(setValue:forHTTPHeaderField:)]) {
        [request setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8A293 Safari/6531.22.7"] forHTTPHeaderField:@"User_Agent"];
    }
    return YES; 
}

now when loading some page with that uiwebview, you should see the iphone version.