Ios App Webview User Agent

Appauth ios web view app.

Ios app webview user agent. In a web browsing experience the user agent is set by the browser which is also an app. As per apple it is an object that displays interactive web content such as for an in app browser. As an ios developer you will come across multiple scenarios where you have to display something in web for that we use webview.

Now instead of a browser our native app will be making the http request. If nil then the receiver constructs a user agent string that produces the best rendering results for each url. This is slightly different again from our previous apps.

The user agent string is a field in the http header that can identify the app that is making the request. The custom user agent string is used for all urls. Var is uiwebview iphone ipod ipad applewebkit version i test navigator useragent.

This is the defacto standard as it has developed in the wild. So the detection script can be modified to work with the latest version of ios like so. Standalone mobile safari user agent strings contain the word version whereas uiwebview user agent strings do not.

To solve this i just installed the browser gem and then did. 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. Stock user agent webviewapp appname version note the webviewapp identifier before the app name and version.

So in this post we will be seeing how to create webview and load the data in it. This time the version 8 0 substring that distinguished webview from browser in our previous examples is included this time scuppering our plans. In this app we will try to reuse existing authentication information and also perform an authorization flow with the help of the appauth sdk for ios.