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| 1 | +#Background |
| 2 | +The User Agent is a client-side piece of information that the browser/webcontrol sends to the server/website a user visits. |
| 3 | +It contains information about user’s system and is modifiable by the user. |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +Currently, a developer can pass the --user-agent browser args to the CreateWebView2EnvironmentWithDetails function. |
| 6 | + Ex. CreateWebView2EnvironmentWithDetails(nullptr, nullptr, L"--user-agent=\"myUA\"", ...); |
| 7 | +For more info about the ‘—user - agent’ flag visit : https |
| 8 | + : // peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/#user-agent. |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | + However, |
| 11 | + there are a couple limitations to this workaround-- you |
| 12 | + cannot modify a command line switch at runtime, |
| 13 | + nor can you change the user agent per webview |
| 14 | + . |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | + In this document we describe the new API |
| 17 | + .We'd appreciate your feedback. |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +#Description |
| 20 | +The Settings component will change the UA per WebView2 via Chrome Developer |
| 21 | + Protocol command.(CDP) |
| 22 | + A key scenario is to allow end developers to get the current user |
| 23 | +agent from the webview and modify it based on some sort of event, |
| 24 | +such as navigating to a specific website and setting the user agent to |
| 25 | +emulate a different browser version |
| 26 | + . |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | +#Examples |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +The following code snippet demonstrates how the environment APIs can be used |
| 31 | +: |
| 32 | + |
| 33 | +##Win32 C++ |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | + ```cpp m_webView->add_NavigationStarting( |
| 36 | + Callback<ICoreWebView2NavigationStartingEventHandler>( |
| 37 | + [this](ICoreWebView2 *sender, |
| 38 | + ICoreWebView2NavigationStartingEventArgs *args) -> HRESULT { |
| 39 | + static const PCWSTR url_compare_example = L"foo.org"; |
| 40 | + wil::unique_bstr domain = GetDomainOfUri(uri.get()); |
| 41 | + const wchar_t *domains = domain.get(); |
| 42 | + if (wcscmp(url_compare_example, domains) == 0) { |
| 43 | + wil::com_ptr<ICoreWebView2Settings> settings; |
| 44 | + CHECK_FAILURE(m_webView->get_Settings(&m_settings)); |
| 45 | + LPCWSTR mobile_ua = |
| 46 | + "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.0.0; SM-G960F Build/R16NW) " |
| 47 | + "AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) " |
| 48 | + "Chrome/62.0.3202.84 Mobile Safari/537.36"; |
| 49 | + CHECK_FAILURE(settings->put_UserAgent(mobile_ua)); |
| 50 | + LPCWSTR received_ua; |
| 51 | + CHECK_FAILURE(settings->get_UserAgent(&received_ua)); |
| 52 | + EXPECT_EQ(base::Value(received_ua), base::Value(mobile_ua)) |
| 53 | + } |
| 54 | + return S_OK; |
| 55 | + }) |
| 56 | + .Get(), |
| 57 | + &m_navigationStartingToken); |
| 58 | +``` ##.NET and WinRT |
| 59 | + ```c #private void SetUserAgent(CoreWebView2 sender, |
| 60 | + CoreWebView2UserAgentArgs e) { |
| 61 | + var settings = webView2Control.CoreWebView2.Settings; |
| 62 | + settings.UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.0.0; SM-G960F " |
| 63 | + "Build/R16NW) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) " |
| 64 | + "Chrome/62.0.3202.84 Mobile Safari/537.36"; |
| 65 | +} |
| 66 | + ``` |
| 67 | +
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| 68 | +#API Notes |
| 69 | +
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| 70 | +See [API Details](#api-details) section below for API reference. |
| 71 | +
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| 72 | +#API Details |
| 73 | +
|
| 74 | +## Win32 C++ |
| 75 | + |
| 76 | + ```IDL |
| 77 | + // This is the ICoreWebView2Settings Staging interface. |
| 78 | + [uuid(c79ba37e-9bd6-4b9e-b460-2ced163f231f), object, pointer_default(unique)] |
| 79 | + interface ICoreWebView2StagingSettings : IUnknown { |
| 80 | + /// `UserAgent` . Returns the User Agent. The default value is the |
| 81 | + /// default User Agent. |
| 82 | + [propget] HRESULT UserAgent([ out, retval ] LPCWSTR * userAgent); |
| 83 | + /// Sets the `UserAgentString` property. This property may be overriden if |
| 84 | + /// the User-Agent header is set in a request. |
| 85 | + [propput] HRESULT UserAgent([in] LPCWSTR userAgent); |
| 86 | + } |
| 87 | + ``` |
| 88 | + ## .NET and WinRT |
| 89 | +
|
| 90 | + ```c #namespace Microsoft.Web.WebView2.Core { |
| 91 | + public |
| 92 | + partial class CoreWebView2 { |
| 93 | + // There are other API in this interface that we are not showing |
| 94 | + public |
| 95 | + CoreWebView2Settings UserAgent { |
| 96 | + get; |
| 97 | + set; |
| 98 | + }; |
| 99 | + } |
| 100 | + } |
| 101 | + ``` |
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