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Salim
Salim

Reputation: 199

Loading specific url breaks in webview

When I load certain urls in my javafx webview application I get this error

Error 403
Guru Meditation:
XID: 1087555431
Varnish cache server

The website loads fine in Chrome, firefox, etc. It would appear that this is an issue with webview. What is a work around?

URL that breaks is http://mp3skull.com

Upvotes: 0

Views: 371

Answers (1)

jewelsea
jewelsea

Reputation: 159291

It is not a fault of WebView, it is some kind of setting on the target site (as suggested by James_D in comments). The target site is checking the user agent of the incoming request and responding with a weird Amiga emulated guru meditation error if it does not detect a recognized user agent.

To get around this, you can set the user agent of the WebView to masquerade as another browser (e.g. Chrome). I copied a user agent from useragentstring.com and when I used the Chrome user agent string the target web page opened fine without any guru mediation.

import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.web.WebView;
import javafx.stage.Stage;

public class Pirate extends Application {

    public static final String CHROME_41_USER_AGENT =
            "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.36";

    @Override
    public void start(final Stage stage) throws Exception {
        WebView webView = new WebView();
        webView.getEngine().setUserAgent(
                CHROME_41_USER_AGENT
        );
        webView.getEngine().load("http://mp3skull.com");

        stage.setScene(new Scene(webView));
        stage.show();
    }
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        launch(args);
    }
}

Upvotes: 1

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