How to get the user agent on iOS?

Question

Is there a way on iOS to get the user agent of the device? I don\'t want to hard code it since I need the user agent for all devices and I need to append the user agent to a

Answer 1

You don’t actually need to make the request in order to get the user-agent. Just return NO from the following delegate method and retain the user-Agent header:

-(BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType

It might look something like this:

-(BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)webView
 shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request
 navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType
{  
     userAgent = [[request valueForHTTPHeaderField:@"User-Agent"] copy]; 
     NSLog(@"user-agent: %@", userAgent);

     _webView.delegate = nil; 
     [_webView release]; 

     return NO; 
}