Windows phone 7 web browser control user agent

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The present user agent for the browser control that i see in the emulator is Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows Phone OS 7.5; Trident/5.0; IEMobile/9.0; Microsoft; XDeviceEmulator) and i want to change that to Mozilla/5.0 Windows NT 6.1 AppleWebKit/535.1 KHTML, like Gecko Chrome/14.0.835.187 Safari/535.1 or something similar.

How to code that in C# to change the user agent string for the web browser control.

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For Windows Phone The Navigate parameter wont accept more than one argument. You will get "No overload for method 'Navigate' takes 4 arguments" error. There is a similar question and answer here: https://stackguides.com/questions/7943812/webbrowser-navigate-user-agent - crazymatt
Windows Phone has a WebBrowser.Navigate method with 3 parameters, that allows you to send the HTTP Headers you want on the request! - Pedro Lamas
I'm pretty sure this wasn't the case when i originally responded to this question. Do I delete my answer for fear of losing all my rep pts or update it with the new details? - crazymatt

4 Answers

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Found a way webBrowser.Navigate("http://localhost/run.php", null, "User-Agent: Here Put The User Agent");

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In Windows Phone 7.5, there is a Navigate method overload that allows setting the headers. There are 3 arguments ( URI, post_info, header_info) , not 4 as shown.

The overload worked for me.

Good luck. -e

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In the end I found an unbelievably simple answer, and that worked.

All you need do is to edit the Web Browser Control XAML. Add the property IsScriptEnabled="True"

Hope this solutions helps.

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Would be something like this, in vb:

WebBrowser.Navigate(New Uri("URL"), byteArr, HttpRequestHeader.UserAgent & ":" & "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.4; fr-fr; HTC Desire Build/GRJ22) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1")

However, I cannot modify the headers already appended to the request, you can only add them, which I find pretty annoying.

Anyone have succeeded in doing this??