Change User Agent in UIWebView

Question

I have a business need to be able to customize the UserAgent for an embedded UIWebView. (For instance, I\'d like the server to respond differently if, say, a user is using

Answer 1

I had this problem too, and tried all methods. I found that only this method works (iOS 5.x): UIWebView iOS5 changing user-agent

The principle is to set the user agent permanently in the user settings. This works; Webview sends the given header. Just two lines of code:

NSDictionary *dictionary = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:@"Mozilla/Whatever version 913.6.beta", @"UserAgent", nil];
[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] registerDefaults:dictionary];

Setting User-Agent, or User_Agent in the mutable request, or overriding the setValue in the NSHttpRequest by swizzling, - I tried all that and controlled the results with wireshark, and none of that seems to work, because Webview still uses the user agent value from the user defaults, no matter what you try to set in the NSHttpRequest.