ICEmobile
  1. ICEmobile
  2. MOBI-106

ICEmobile User-Agent not stable on iOS

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          • Type: Bug Bug
          • Status: Closed
          • Priority: Major Major
          • Resolution: Fixed
          • Affects Version/s: 1.0 Beta
          • Fix Version/s: 1.0 Beta
          • Component/s: None
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          • Environment:
            ICEmobile

            Description

            initial requests are made with

            User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/9A334

            whereas subsequent requests are made with

            User-Agent: ICEmobile/1.0.0 CFNetwork/548.0.3 Darwin/11.0.0

            This affects server-side device detection and rendering.

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              Ted Goddard added a comment -

              Server-side caches valid User-Agent strings.

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              Ted Goddard added a comment - Server-side caches valid User-Agent strings.
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              Ted Goddard added a comment -

              The strategy used to solve this is to cache the first valid User-Agent in the session: both iPhone and Android clients are observed to use detailed User-Agent headers on their initial requests. Once a User-Agent containing "Mozilla" has been encountered, it will be used for all subsequent detection.

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              Ted Goddard added a comment - The strategy used to solve this is to cache the first valid User-Agent in the session: both iPhone and Android clients are observed to use detailed User-Agent headers on their initial requests. Once a User-Agent containing "Mozilla" has been encountered, it will be used for all subsequent detection.
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              Ted Goddard added a comment -

              It is not possible to configure the User-Agent for iPhone WebKit. Further, the Android client behaves similarly for some requests:

              User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/UNAVAILABLE (java 1.4)

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              Ted Goddard added a comment - It is not possible to configure the User-Agent for iPhone WebKit. Further, the Android client behaves similarly for some requests: User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/UNAVAILABLE (java 1.4)

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                • Assignee:
                  Ted Goddard
                  Reporter:
                  Ted Goddard
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