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[Hans Mayer <hans.mayer@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Phil

thanks for your reply.

I do not want to reinvent/recompile a browser only to modify a literal.
For me the solution is to get it configurable (by gui or config text file).

I have seen a "wish list" for needed UT apps. There was a scope for 
slack.com.
Imagine we had a configurable (e.g.: radio button from predefined strings):
Your effort for twitter as the effort needed for the slack scope could 
be user for other needs...

Best regards
Hans

On 06/01/2016 12:21 PM, Phil wrote:
> On Wed, 1/6/16, Hans Mayer <hans.mayer@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   Subject: [Ubuntu-phone] User agent on ubuntu touch
>   To: ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>   Date: Wednesday, 1 June, 2016, 9:35
>   
>   Hello,
>   
>   Is there a possibility to change the user agent the web
>   browser on UT
>   sends to sites?
>   E.G. slack.com does not support UT. When opening the site, I
>   have no
>   access to channels.
>   If I can say "i am a desktop", the displayed data would be
>   the same as
>   on PC. This is ok on a Meizu 5 PRO.
>
>   --
>   Best Regards
>   Hans
> --------------------------------------------
> I don't think you can do this from the browser settings, however if you create a new web app (and, I guess, you could create a whole general browser by not putting a URL pattern restriction in) you can specify the user agent.  For example I created a "full-fat" app to access the Twitter site, as certain functions are restricted/.blocked on the mobile site, my app's Exec line set up a desktop agent to send:-
>
> Exec=webapp-container --enable-back-forward --store-session-cookies --user-agent-string="Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Ubuntu) AppleWebKit/537.36 Chromium/35.0.1870.2 Safari/537.36" --webappUrlPatterns=https?://*.twitter.com/*,https?://twitter.com/* http://twitter.com %u
>
> You could then package this as a click package and then manually install it on your device
>   
>   Phil
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Best Regards
Hans