[CB-3360] Set custom InAppBrowser user-agent

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.7.0
• Component/s: cordova-plugin-inappbrowser
• Labels: Cordova InAppBrowser android

Environment

iOS, Android, WP8, BlackBerry

• Assignee: Shazron Abdullah
• Reporter: Kevin Simpson
• Created: 08/May/13 20:16
• Updated: 14/Dec/17 19:27
• Resolved: 03/Mar/16 02:09

Description

Currently you can set a custom user-agent for the main Cordova webview by overriding the init method for the DroidGap class. However, when opening a page in the InAppBrowser, that webview will still contain the default user-agent.

There are two solutions that I have thought of to this:

1. Set the user-agent of the InAppBrowser webview to whatever the user-agent in the Cordova webview is set to. (This is what I am currently doing, as it was a one line change, but it requires rebuilding Cordova manually)

2. Have some sort of configuration option to set the user-agent for the InAppBrowser. This would allow a different user-agent from the main webview, but is also a more involved change.

Issue Links

• is related to: CB-2520 iOS: "original" user agent needs to be overridable
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #94
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #162
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #174
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #174