Browser Widget and Twitter on iOS 13

[Mark Waddingham]

On 2020-08-14 13:31, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode wrote:
> Thanks Panos and Mark!
> 
> So... to recap..
> 1) get the userAgent in Safari on my 10.14.6 Mac
> 2) in App (If the platform="iphone" then set userAgent to this value).

Pretty much - although I recommend not using the userAgent string from a 
mac. Instead, get the userAgent string from an iPad which allows you to 
access twitter.com through the browser widget. Just in case anything 
mac-ish in the user agent string causes twitter.com to do something 
different (e.g. specialize for desktop rather than mobile).

> Should I use the userAgent globally for all browser widget http(s) 
> requests
> on platform = iphone?

Isn't the issue on iPad?

> Will this affect any other tsNet functions?

The browser widget uses WKWebView which uses system HTTP functionality 
so tsNet isn't involved.

> Should it be reset back to empty for any reason?

I can't think of one.

> Should I file a bug report?

No - this isn't anything we can do anything about. I strongly suspect 
the iPad issue your client is having is one of;
   - it isn't running the very latest iOS version, and Twitter is 
blocking the default userAgent string for that version and older ones 
which come from WKWebView
   - Twitter's (new?) block-list isn't actually correct and not taking 
into account enough variations (e.g. those coming from WKWebView).

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

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