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Message #23295
Re: web-app https://appear.in/ not asking permissions for cam and mic
El día Wednesday, January 11, 2017 a las 01:14:47PM +0100, Olivier Tilloy escribió:
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> > Can you help me to understand this. Thanks
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> appear.in is using the user-agent string¹ to present different content
> based on what it guesses the OS is. In that case it incorrectly thinks
> it’s android (because the UA string exposed by webbrowser-app contains
> a "like Android" token). It therefore presents an android-specific
> link which will open the appear.in android app if installed, or most
> likely redirect to the play store to suggest installing it if not.
> There is a mechanism for webapps to override the default user agent,
> so I was suggesting that the author of the appear.in webapp (Peter
> Bittner, CC'ed here) should use it to "fix" the webapp.
> Happy to help testing or do further investigation if needed.
Thanks for the enlightenment.
Peter, is there something to config or patch (even with a hex editor) to
get this running on my beloved BQ E4.5?
Thanks
matthias
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