[WebKit-devel] [Bug 198428] Wrong default user agent string in Konqueror with webkit-kde kpart

[Dawit Alemayehu]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198428





--- Comment #9 from Dawit Alemayehu <adawit kde org>  2009-10-25 04:38:41 ---
On Saturday 24 October 2009 18:34:20 Allan Sandfeld wrote:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198428
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> Allan Sandfeld <kde at carewolf.com> changed:
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> --- Comment #8 from Allan Sandfeld <kde carewolf com>  2009-10-25 00:34:18
>  --- I would suggest fixing the user-agent configuration instead. We have a
>  configuration dialog for the user-agent string, and it could take into
>  consideration which html-engine is default, or you could extend the API to
>  set an override while webkitpart is being used.

Well it is more complicated than that and as I already stated not a trivial 
thing to fix because 

#1. The useragent configuration is decoupled from the application. It is tied 
to KIO rather than any one specific application. If a single application 
changes this setting, all applications will be affected! The only way 
applications can provide their own user-agent string is to pass that 
information through the KIO meta data system and ignore the KDE (read: KIO) 
wide configuration.

#2. The process Konqueror uses to find and use the appropriate kpart has a huge 
effect in which user-agent string gets sent to remote sites. I have explained 
how this process is currently handled by Konqueror in comment #5. Namely, it 
always does a stat on user typed/selected url in order to find out the 
request's mime-type. It does this to make sure that it invokes the correct 
kpart to handle the request.

Anyhow, I agree that the user-agent configuration dialog can and should 
definitely be modified to allows users to easily change the default user-agent 
string. Currently, it does not...

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