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ccagle8
ccagle8

Reputation: 308

How do I set the UserAgent of a NSURLConnection back to the default iOS Safari one?

So it looks like the default usage of NSURLConnection has a UserAgent that does not match that of Safari on the same device. So the question is: How do I change NSURLConnection to use what is the default UserAgent of Safari?

I found a few posts on SO that talk about how to set the UA to something unique and that is not what I am looking to do. I just want to put the UA back to what it really should be.

Note: Since iOS updates on a regular basis, I need something that will work on iOS7 as well have some sort of backwards compatibility.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 738

Answers (1)

rcw3
rcw3

Reputation: 3034

I believe the user-agent by default on an NSURLConnection uses your app name and version. I don’t know of any magical way to set it to automatically use the current mobile Safari user agent string. The only thing I would possibly suggest is to try and use http://whatsmyuseragent.com from Safari on the device, then based on the results, hardcode the user agent string in the request to mimic it:

[request addValue:myHardcodedUserAgent forHTTPHeaderField:@"User-Agent”];

Of course, as Safari's user agent string changes, your's will not.

Upvotes: 1

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