Pain in the Tech comments on [How to: Fake the iPhone User Agent]

Comment on [How to: Fake the iPhone User Agent] by Eric

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:08:11 -0800

You can also fake the User-Agent programmatically with the TcpCatcher tool. Have a look at this

Comment on [How to: Fake the iPhone User Agent] by Laurent

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:04:28 -0700

there are already many different user agents for the iPhone, you can find a list here: iPhone user agents

And I usually use a Firefox plug-in called Modify Headers to fake user agents, Im using this one instead of the classical switcher because it allows to inject any kind of http header.

Comment on [How to: Fake the iPhone User Agent] by pav376

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:12:37 -0700

for those with an iphone (hacked) and want to use the full version of a web page can download UserAgent Faker from cydia

Comment on [How to: Fake the iPhone User Agent] by Tech World Pro

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:51:31 -0700

@the last commentor - If you read the article, it's about faking an iPhone user agent, this has nothing to do with apps running on an iPhone, it's about simulating an iPhone to test web page compatibility.

Great article btw !!

Comment on [How to: Fake the iPhone User Agent] by Unlock iPhone 3.0

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:44:38 -0700

Good work guys! Will this work on the iphone 3g?

Comment on [How to: Fake the iPhone User Agent] by Easy unlock iphone

Tue, 05 May 2009 01:21:17 -0700

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Comment on [How to: Fake the iPhone User Agent] by James

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:52:39 -0700

The best place I know for finding iPhone adapted sites is on the portal MobStart http://mobil.mobstart.dk Look under the category iPhone at the buttom of the site.

James

Comment on [How to: Fake the iPhone User Agent] by EdwinInTampa

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:01:01 -0800

I don't want optimized pages that in any way reduce capabilities (I'm looking at you Google!).

I don't want to be a second class netizen!

I don't want any of this "separate, but equal" prejudice!

Comment on [How to: Fake the iPhone User Agent] by Willy

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:52:05 -0800

Can' t you just paste the FULL user-agent string, PLEASE? Sheesh!. This is what I hate about Mac users... you give a step-by-step tutorial for 5 year olds but fail to just paste the real data.

I want to use the FULL user agent string in Mozilla SeaMonkey with the preferences toolbart (hhtp://prefbar.mozdev.org).

I will now have to look elsewhere, as this info cut into bits is of no use for me.

Comment on [How to: Fake the iPhone User Agent] by WebHack

Fri, 30 May 2008 03:03:01 -0700

Hey there,

There's something wrong here. It doesn't work like that.

If you have you settings like this all a UserAgent checker will see is "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en)"

And most website use the following script to verify that: [start] if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Mobile') <0) { window.location = redirect; if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Safari') <0) { window.location = redirect; } } [end]

And this wil result in beging redirected away of being accesed denied.

Instead do some random numbers, as long as is has Mobile/xxy Safari/xx.x where x = a number and y a small alphabetical character. Ohyeah, to prevent language or location deletion also leave away other stuff:

Description: iPhone User Agent: Mobile/12a Safari/23.1 App Name: AppleWebKit/420 App Version: Version/3.0 Platform: iPhone/12a Grizz/23.1

THIS WORKS PERFECT, even after the security updates wherethrue this post didn't work afterall any more.

Spead it out !

- WebHack

Comment on [How to: Fake the iPhone User Agent] by Tr3v

Tue, 13 May 2008 14:11:27 -0700

Or you can open preferences -> advanced and tick show developer menu if you don't like to mess about in terminal :o)

Comment on [How to: Fake the iPhone User Agent] by Randal L. Schwartz

Thu, 01 May 2008 17:05:26 -0700

You can also "defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1" at the command line in OSX, then stop and restart Safari. This will reveal the "debug" menu, and one of the options is "User Agent -> iPhone", which looks like it has all the right values. Can't wait to try this!

Comment on [How to: Fake the iPhone User Agent] by Yann

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:29:08 -0700

There is TypePad version for the iphone (http://i.typepad.com) and one for Movable Type too:

http://plugins.movabletype.org/imt/