Setting User Agent String with Selenium

[Aniket Gadre]

Hi All,

Is it possible to set the user agent string (in my case for ipad) in browser with selenium?

Best Regards,

Aniket

[David]

Good question, I'd like to know too. But why the case for iPad? I
guess you can only simulate browsing as another browser via user agent
string, but you have no option to specify iPad browser via Selenium
(mobile Safari vs Opera, etc.) unlike desktop browsers.

[mari muthu]

Hi,

FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();
profile.setPreference("general.useragent.override", "iPhone");
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);

Thanks & Regards,
M.Marimuthu

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

Marimuthu,

How would you make use of FirefoxDriver and have it run against the selenium server instance running on an iPhone ?

I thought the only way to interact with an iPhone or Android environment was to use their respect WebDrivers or resort to RemoteWebDriver and couple it with the corresponding DesiredCapabilities object.

Thanks & Regards
Krishnan Mahadevan

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[David]

Agree with Krishnan, Marimuthu's approach can set user agent string,
faking the browser to the website/server, but it will of course
actually be using the wrong browser/WebDriver. It would be same as
using HTTP request libraries and setting HTTP request header
specifying user agent string to the website/server.

But this also brings back my original question, why even bother
setting user agent string for a mobile browser? Unless you are testing
from desktop and faking as mobile browser. Or unless you want to test
unsupported mobile browser by faking as it (e.g. Opera Mobile/Mini vs
WebDriver's iPhone/iPad driver which is for mobile Safari).

On Feb 15, 3:14 am, Krishnan Mahadevan

[Automation User]

We can switch user agent in FF 

FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();
profile.setPreference("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3");

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);

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