** Branch linked: lp:~osomon/webbrowser-app/userAgentOverrides -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to webbrowser-app in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1410753
Title: Implement a new API for overriding the user agent string Status in Oxide: Fix Released Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: Currently the browser provides user agent string overrides using WebContextDelegateWorker (intercepting onGetUserAgentOverride for accesses to navigator.userAgent and onBeforeSendHeaders for modifying the User-Agent header). However, it's only possible to access these and resolve the user agent string on the IO thread. There is a requirement for being able to resolve the URL-specific user agent string when not on the IO thread (eg, mediahub), and this is not possible with the current design. As the browser's overrides appear to be a list of simple patterns (using "*" and "?"), there's no reason why we couldn't expose a new API (WebContext.userAgentOverrides) to allow the browser to specify the set of overrides. We would then do the matching inside of Oxide on whatever thread requires it using an API that is thread-safe internally, rather than calling in to an application provided script to do the pattern matching and determine the override. This would mean that WebContext.userAgentOverrideDelegate would be deprecated (WebContext.networkRequestDelegate wouldn't be, as it has other uses besides setting the User-Agent header in HTTP requests). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/oxide/+bug/1410753/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
