Hi Konstantin, Thanks for your prompt response :-)
I didn't notice this bug and the respective patches. I read the report and still find it hard to understand, if "User Agent sniffing is a terrible way to determine whether a browser supports certain features", what is the correct way of doing it? Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2018 at 1:16 PM From: "Konstantin Tokarev" <annu...@yandex.ru> To: "Ricky Young" <ri...@gmx.com>, "webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org" <webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org> Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] New iOS versions sending bogus User-Agent build data 26.04.2018, 13:08, "Ricky Young" <ri...@gmx.com>: > Until iOS 11.3, User-Agent build data contained the build that corresponds to > the device (e.g. Mobile/15D100 if the requesting device was running iOS > 11.2.6). > > Since iOS 11.3 was released I noticed that the User-Agent that is reported to > the brower is reporting a bogus build, i.e Mobile/15E148, regardless to the > iOS version that the requesting device is running. I would expect that a > device that runs 11.3 will reprot a different User-Agent than a device that > runs 11.3.1 and certianly than a device that runs 11.4 (Beta 1 & 2). > > I just wonder if my observation is an expected behavior, and if so, what is > the intention behind it. If this behavior is not intended and expected, I > would love to research it and propose a patch (would be my first Open Source > contribution). Hi, User-Agent string is frozen since https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180365 -- Regards, Konstantin _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
