608460 - Change the User Agent of Firefox Home to include the OS version

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Cloud Services Graveyard :: Firefox Home, defect)

Description

[Stefan Arentz | :st3fan | ⏰ EST | he/him]

Change the User Agent of Firefox Home to include the OS version. Currently the UA is set by the OS because we use the 'shortcut' data loading methods. If we change to a synchronous NSURLConnection then we can update the User Agent to something predictable contain all the right info that the metrics team needs.

Comment 1

[:Atoll]

MobileSafari reports the OS build as "8B117", which maps directly to iOS 4.1 Gold Master.  There may be a better way.

Nelson, cc'ing you because this I understand you're working on the improved useragent detection code; this will have some positive impact on that, at least for Firefox Home.

Comment 2

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

Targeting 1.1

Comment 3

[Stefan Arentz | :st3fan | ⏰ EST | he/him]

We switched to a new HTTP client in Home, which now uses the following format as the default User Agent:

$APP_NAME $APP_VERSION ($DEVICE_TYPE; $ iPhone OS $OS_VERSION; $LOCALE)

Like for example:

Firefox Home 1.1b1 (iPhone Simulator; iPhone OS 4.2; en_US)

Is this good?

Comment 4

[:Atoll]

+1

Comment 5

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

how can i verify this on the device?