[android-developers] HTTP Requests - can Android be identified?
Hi all. Could a standard web server identify an HTTP request as coming from a normal browser, as opposed to an Android application? What could be different about the request that would enable the server to differentiate between the two, and modify the response accordingly? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] HTTP Requests - can Android be identified?
Sure. You have to use the user agent. You have something like Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 1.5; en-us; Galaxy Build/CUPCAKE) AppleWebKit/528.5+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Mobile Safari/525.20.1 for Android and something like Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) from the normal Firefox browser. BR, Adrian Vintu On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Neilz neilhorn...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi all. Could a standard web server identify an HTTP request as coming from a normal browser, as opposed to an Android application? What could be different about the request that would enable the server to differentiate between the two, and modify the response accordingly? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comandroid-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] HTTP Requests - can Android be identified?
You can use Fiddler to take a peek at user agents. For example, an IE request for google looks like this: GET /csi?v=3s=webhpaction=e=17259,17291,23189ei=HE9MS66yO4WI_AaJrYXgDArt=prt.469,xjsls.750,xjses.1234,xjsee.1422,xjs.1453,ol.1828 HTTP/1.1 Accept: */* Referer: http://www.google.at/ Accept-Language: en-us,de-at;q=0.5 User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E) Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Host: www.google.at Connection: Keep-Alive Link is http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/ BR, Adrian Vintu On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Adrian Vintu adrianvi...@gmail.comwrote: Sure. You have to use the user agent. You have something like Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 1.5; en-us; Galaxy Build/CUPCAKE) AppleWebKit/528.5+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Mobile Safari/525.20.1 for Android and something like Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) from the normal Firefox browser. BR, Adrian Vintu On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Neilz neilhorn...@googlemail.comwrote: Hi all. Could a standard web server identify an HTTP request as coming from a normal browser, as opposed to an Android application? What could be different about the request that would enable the server to differentiate between the two, and modify the response accordingly? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comandroid-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
