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

It should work with an NSMutableURLRequest as Kuso has written.

NSMutableURLRequest *urlRequest = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] initWithURL: [NSURL URLWithString: @"http://www.google.com/"]];
[urlRequest setValue: @"iPhone" forHTTPHeaderField: @"User-Agent"]; // Or any other User-Agent value.

You'll have to use NSURLConnection to get the responseData. Set the responseData to your UIWebView and the webView should render:

[webView loadData:(NSData *)data MIMEType:(NSString *)MIMEType textEncodingName:(NSString *)encodingName baseURL:(NSURL *)baseURL];