I am using the Ruby client to hit the cloud api.
I have had several users report that no matter what browser they are using on an IPhone or IPad device the browser is always reported as Safari.
I am using the mobile_browser capability to detect this information. I can reproduce it in house using our IOS devices.
Using an IPad Mini running IOS 8.1 and the Chrome Mobile web browser I get the following user agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 8_1_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/40.0.2214.73 Mobile/12B466 Safari/600.1.4
The API returns the mobile_browser capability as 'Safari' for that string.
I believe the 'CriOS/40.0.2214.73 Mobile' portion should identify the browser as Chrome.
Using the same IPad and the built in Safari browser I get the user agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 8_1_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Mobile/12B466 Safari/600.1.4
The string is different and notably missing the 'CriOS/40.0.2214.73 Mobile' portion, but also returns mobile_browser: Safari. In the second case that is correct.
Is this an issue with the API or is there another capability that I should check to get the correct browser?
Thanks.
IOS Mobile Browser info appears to be incorrect
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Re: IOS Mobile Browser info appears to be incorrect
Hello,
I would recommend using `advertised_browser` as that will allow you to identify the browser as `Chrome Mobile on iOS`. The `mobile_browser` capability will return Safari since all browsers on iOS are using Apple's Mobile Safari engine.
Thank you,
Elliot
I would recommend using `advertised_browser` as that will allow you to identify the browser as `Chrome Mobile on iOS`. The `mobile_browser` capability will return Safari since all browsers on iOS are using Apple's Mobile Safari engine.
Thank you,
Elliot
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Re: IOS Mobile Browser info appears to be incorrect
Elliot,
Thanks for the information. I will give that a try.
Thanks for the information. I will give that a try.
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