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iphoneuser-agent
Sjakelien
Sjakelien

Reputation:

iPhone User Agent

I'm building an iPhone app, that basically just displays information from an rss feed, and drags in some extra info from a related web site. I'm considering to put in some reporting code, eg the code provided by PinchMedia. I do have some issues with that, because I'll be monitoring users without consent. So, I was wondering if it was possible to just take a look at the requests that are received by the rss provider.

In my code, I approach the feed as follows:

NSString * path = @"http://feeds.feedburner.com/whatever";
[self parseXMLFileAtURL:path];

Does the iPhone send any User Agent information to the server when opening that URL? If so, can I alter it in such a way, that it would be easy to distinguish a call from my app from regular rss clients?

Thank you for your insights!

Upvotes: 8

Views: 23375

Answers (2)

user125129
user125129

Reputation: 169

For your reference, here's the User Agent string supplied by an iPhone running the 3.0 version of the OS:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7A341 Safari/528.16

As Nevan says, that should allow you to distinguish iPhone requests from other requests.

Upvotes: 16

nevan king
nevan king

Reputation: 113747

It sends the name of the app with the version number. It looks very different than the string browsers send so it's easy to distinguish.

Upvotes: 1

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