DDG-iOS user agent for all requests to DDG, not just WatrCoolr. about ios-search-and-stories

It appears as though the header is being set when searching using the search bar:

But is overridden by UIWebView when you actually load the page:

This appears to be standard behaviour on iOS, but I'm currently investigating to see if the headers set automatically by UIWebView can be overwritten.

As an aside, the User Agent string seems to use the build number, which changes with each build we push to Hockey.

[quanganhdo]

There's a way to overwrite that (I've done that in one of my apps). I'll look into it this weekend if you want.

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On 02-05-2014, at 18:03, Mic Pringle [email protected] wrote:

It appears as though the header is being set when searching using the search bar:

But is overridden by UIWebView when you actually load the page:

This appears to be standard behaviour on iOS, but I'm currently investigating to see if the headers set automatically by UIWebView can be overwritten.

As an aside, the User Agent string seems to use the build number, which changes with each build we push to Hockey.

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Thanks @quanganhdo but I've just pushed a commit that fixes that.

Here's a request sent via the search bar:

Here's the search results being loaded in the web view:

And here's a non-DDG web page being loaded from the results, in the web view:

As you can see, the User Agent is only manipulated on the first two.

This functionality is available in the latest build on Hockey. Give it a shot @nilnilnil and see what you think. Let me know if you notice any unusual behaviour.

@nilnilnil Are you happy for this one to be closed now?