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WebView.SetCustomUserAgent

Sets the custom user agent text.

Component Version macOS Windows Linux Server FileMaker iOS SDK
WebView 2.9 Yes No No No No
MBS( "WebView.SetCustomUserAgent"; WebViewerRef; UserAgent )   More

Parameters

Parameter Description Example
WebViewerRef Either the Web Viewer Object Name or the Web Viewer ID as returned by "WebView.FindByName" function. "web"
UserAgent The new useragent. "FileMaker Browser"

Result

Returns OK or error.

Description

Sets the custom user agent text.
This user agent is reported to websites. By using a different user agent string you can tell a website that FileMaker is using Firefox, Chrome or Internet Explorer instead of Safari (WebKit).

Add iOS with version 9.3.

Examples

Set custom user agent to be Internet Explorer 7:

MBS( "WebView.SetCustomUserAgent"; "web"; "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" )

Set custom user agent to be Firefox 15:

MBS( "WebView.SetCustomUserAgent"; "web"; "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0.1" )

Set custom user agent to be Safari 13.1:

MBS( "WebView.SetCustomUserAgent"; "web"; "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1 Safari/605.1.15" )

Set custom user agent to be Chrom 83:

MBS( "WebView.SetCustomUserAgent"; "web"; "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.61 Safari/537.36" )

See also

Example Databases

Blog Entries

Release notes

Created 18th August 2014, last changed 28th May 2020


WebView.SetAutoResizingMask   -   WebView.SetEditable

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