I'm trying to make my WebView headers look like the user is just using the regular browser and not using a WebView. From what I can gather the headers are identical apart that the WebView also sends an X-Requested-With header containing the apps package name. Is there any way of preventing this?
You can do it for Android API > 11
public class AndroidMobileAppSampleActivity extends Activity {
Map<String, String> extraHeaders = new HashMap<String, String>();
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
WebView mainWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.mainWebView);
// must define X-Requested-With, if header missing, then webview will
//add your package name
extraHeaders.put("X-Requested-With", "your presentation");
WebSettings webSettings = mainWebView.getSettings();
webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
mainWebView.setWebViewClient(new MyCustomWebViewClient());
mainWebView.setScrollBarStyle(View.SCROLLBARS_INSIDE_OVERLAY);
mainWebView.loadUrl("http://www.somesite.com", extraHeaders);
}
private class MyCustomWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {
@Override
public WebResourceResponse shouldInterceptRequest(WebView view,
String url) {
// TODO Here you must overwrite request using your
// HttpClient Request
// and pass it to new WebResourceResponse
return new WebResourceResponse(response.ContentType, response.ContentEncoding, responseStream);
}
@Override
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
// Apply again your heades here
view.loadUrl(url, extraHeaders);
return true;
}
}
}