Source: webkit2gtk Version: 2.18.3-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch X-Debbugs-CC: mcatanz...@gnome.org
Consider applying the Fedora patch to add Debian to the webkit user agent string. Implementation =========== The patch is at https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/webkitgtk4/blob/master/f/user-agent-branding.patch and it's accompanied by -DUSER_AGENT_GTK_DISTRIBUTOR_NAME=\'\\"Fedora\\"\' Besides Ubuntu, there are a couple other Debian derivatives you might want to support. See around line 50 in https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-gnome/desktop/unstable/gnome-software/debian/rules?view=markup Background ========= The upstream bug is https://bugs.webkit.org/162611 I talked to Michael Catanzaro which pointed out that it's possible for some websites to try to sniff for "X11; Linux x86_64" (I think this would change that snippet to "X11; Debian; Linux x86_64"). He said that Google used to be one of those websites. webkit can add useragent quirks for any websites that have that problem once someone notices the issue and files a bug. By the way, Epiphany master dropped the optional vendor user agent extension today that Debian had been using because the webkit user agent string is already included in Epiphany's user agent. https://git.gnome.org/browse/epiphany/commit/?id=b8508aa Thanks, Jeremy Bicha
