How to get UIWebView User-Agent

Question

I've got a problem working with one remote server. My app makes a request to a server using [NSData initWithContentsOfURL:] method and as a response I get website's url which I open in UIWebView.

The problem is that those requests have different User-Agent and server can't serve me correct because it expects that I send all requests with the same User-Agent. I know how to change User-Agent (e.g Change User Agent in UIWebView (iPhone SDK)) but what I really want it is somehow to get UIWebView's User-Agent and set it to [NSData initWithContentsOfURL:] to avoid problems with server side

Answer 1

I just ran into a similar issue and needed to make the user agent sent by an NSURLConnection match the one sent by a UIWebView. My solution was to create a UIWebView and then just use javascript to pull out the user agent.

UIWebView* webView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero]; NSString* secretAgent = [webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:@"navigator.userAgent"];