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Ericktux

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how to use "user agent" in webbrowser (IE) mobile mode
« on: December 07, 2022, 05:59:44 am »
hello brothers I found this example of webbrowser (IE) called "myBrowser.zip" in the following link
https://www.lazarusforum.de/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=7407

At the moment it works and compiles perfectly, it's very basic, just what I needed.

but I would like to modify the "user agent" to be able to emulate the mobile mode of the web pages. The problem is that I don't know what to do.

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  1. 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 7_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11A465 Safari/9537.53'

I need your help please.  :(

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  1. unit Unit1;
  2.  
  3. {$mode objfpc}{$H+}
  4.  
  5. interface
  6.  
  7. uses
  8.   Classes, SysUtils, FileUtil, activexcontainer, Forms, Controls, Graphics,
  9.   Dialogs, StdCtrls, ExtCtrls, SHDocVw_1_1_TLB;
  10.  
  11. type
  12.  
  13.   { TForm1 }
  14.  
  15.   TForm1 = class(TForm)
  16.     ActiveXContainer1: TActiveXContainer;
  17.     btnTest: TButton;
  18.     btnNavigate: TButton;
  19.     btnPrint: TButton;
  20.     btnBack: TButton;
  21.     btnForward: TButton;
  22.     brnRefresh: TButton;
  23.     btnStop: TButton;
  24.     edtUrl: TEdit;
  25.     lblStatus: TLabel;
  26.     pnlFunctions: TPanel;
  27.     pnlStatus: TPanel;
  28.     procedure brnRefreshClick(Sender: TObject);
  29.     procedure btnBackClick(Sender: TObject);
  30.     procedure btnNavigateClick(Sender: TObject);
  31.     procedure btnForwardClick(Sender: TObject);
  32.     procedure btnPrintClick(Sender: TObject);
  33.     procedure btnStopClick(Sender: TObject);
  34.     procedure btnTestClick(Sender: TObject);
  35.     procedure FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
  36.     procedure FormDestroy(Sender: TObject);
  37.   private
  38.     procedure OnStatusTextChange(Sender: TObject; Text_: WideString);
  39.   public
  40.     { public declarations }
  41.   end;
  42.  
  43. var
  44.   Form1: TForm1;
  45.   Browser: TEvsWebBrowser;
  46.  
  47. implementation
  48.  
  49. {$R *.lfm}
  50.  
  51. { TForm1 }
  52.  
  53. procedure TForm1.btnTestClick(Sender: TObject);
  54. var ovMIMEType, ovDocument: Olevariant;
  55. begin
  56.   ovDocument := Browser.ComServer.Document;
  57.   ovMIMEType := 'text/html';
  58.   ovDocument.Open(ovMIMEType);
  59.   ovDocument.Write('<html><body><p>Hello World!</p></body></html>');
  60.   ovDocument.Close();
  61. end;
  62.  
  63. procedure TForm1.btnNavigateClick(Sender: TObject);
  64. var ovNull, ovUrl: OleVariant;
  65. begin
  66.   ovUrl := Utf8decode(edtUrl.Text);
  67.   ovNull := NULL;
  68.   Browser.ComServer.Navigate2(ovUrl, ovNull, ovNull, ovNull, ovNull);
  69. end;
  70.  
  71. procedure TForm1.btnForwardClick(Sender: TObject);
  72. begin
  73.   Browser.ComServer.GoForward;
  74. end;
  75.  
  76. procedure TForm1.btnBackClick(Sender: TObject);
  77. begin
  78.   Browser.ComServer.GoBack;
  79. end;
  80.  
  81. procedure TForm1.brnRefreshClick(Sender: TObject);
  82. begin
  83.   Browser.ComServer.Refresh;
  84. end;
  85.  
  86. procedure TForm1.btnPrintClick(Sender: TObject);
  87. var ovIn, ovOut: OleVariant;
  88. begin
  89.   if (Browser.ComServer.QueryStatusWB(OLECMDID_PRINT) and OLECMDF_ENABLED) = 2 then
  90.     Browser.ComServer.ExecWB(OLECMDID_PRINT, OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER, ovIn, ovOut);
  91. end;
  92.  
  93. procedure TForm1.btnStopClick(Sender: TObject);
  94. begin
  95.   Browser.ComServer.Stop;
  96. end;
  97.  
  98. procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
  99. var ovUrl, ovNull: Olevariant;
  100. begin
  101.   Browser := TEvsWebBrowser.Create(Self);
  102.   ActiveXContainer1.ComServer := Browser.ComServer;
  103.   ActiveXContainer1.Active := true;
  104.   Browser.OnStatusTextChange := @OnStatusTextChange;
  105.   ovUrl := Utf8decode('about:blank');
  106.   ovNull := NULL;
  107.   Browser.ComServer.Navigate2(ovUrl, ovNull, ovNull, ovNull, ovNull);
  108.   Browser.ComServer.Silent := true;
  109. end;
  110.  
  111. procedure TForm1.FormDestroy(Sender: TObject);
  112. begin
  113.   Browser.Free;
  114. end;
  115.  
  116. procedure TForm1.OnStatusTextChange(Sender: TObject; Text_: WideString);
  117. begin
  118.   lblStatus.Caption:='Browser: '+UTF8Encode(Text_);
  119. end;
  120.  
  121. end.

I attach the project and main code
« Last Edit: December 07, 2022, 06:02:14 am by Ericktux »

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Re: how to use "user agent" in webbrowser (IE) mobile mode
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2022, 10:35:53 am »
Doing this:
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  1. procedure TForm1.btnNavigateClick(Sender: TObject);
  2. var ovNull, ovUrl, ovHeader: OleVariant;
  3.     s: AnsiString;
  4. begin
  5.   ovUrl := Utf8decode(edtUrl.Text);
  6.   ovNull := NULL;
  7.   s := 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 7_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11A465 Safari/9537.53'#0#0;
  8.   ovHeader := PAnsiChar(s);
  9.   Browser.ComServer.Navigate2(ovUrl, ovNull, ovNull, ovNull, ovHeader);
  10. end;
End up like i show in attachment.
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Re: how to use "user agent" in webbrowser (IE) mobile mode
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2022, 11:16:27 am »
but I would like to modify the "user agent" to be able to emulate the mobile mode of the web pages.
Changing the user agent does not affect how it is rendered.
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Ericktux

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Re: how to use "user agent" in webbrowser (IE) mobile mode
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2022, 03:53:55 pm »
hello friend, thank you very much for your help, it works fine, but the web does not detect the change  :(, for example, I am trying to make an app to download the windows 10 iso from its official website here
https://www.microsoft.com/es-es/software-download/windows10ISO

If I open "Internet explorer" and change its "user agent" it is possible to enter the web in mobile mode and download the iso. but I can't do that with the project.

please help  :( :(

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Re: how to use "user agent" in webbrowser (IE) mobile mode
« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2022, 10:45:22 pm »
hello friend, thank you very much for your help, it works fine
You are welcome  O:-)
but the web does not detect the change
That I told, it does not change the way of how its rendered.
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Re: how to use "user agent" in webbrowser (IE) mobile mode
« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2022, 11:02:54 pm »
Thank you very much for answering friend, can it be solved or is it so  :-\
If it can't be solved, will you know another simple browser that allows me to do it, friend?
« Last Edit: December 07, 2022, 11:06:43 pm by Ericktux »

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Re: how to use "user agent" in webbrowser (IE) mobile mode
« Reply #6 on: December 08, 2022, 12:09:35 am »
The problem you encounter is, that your try uses the microsoft internet explorer activex control, so internal it will always stay like that.
( even if you see on my above screenshot something different  :-X )
I do know only "real" browsers capable of doing what you try to achieve. (For myself I do happily use Opera for many many years and never want to change.)
Anyway, if I would be you, I would try CEF4Delphi but for myself, I havent tried that one with your special wish.
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Re: how to use "user agent" in webbrowser (IE) mobile mode
« Reply #7 on: December 08, 2022, 12:17:57 am »
I understand friend, I am aware of the existence of the CEF4delphi project, I did some tests a while ago, it is very good and complete, only it is a bit heavy and has many files compared to the basic project that I uploaded at the beginning.
In any case, I appreciate your help and sincerity my friend, if I find another simple way I will share it here, regards  :)

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Re: how to use "user agent" in webbrowser (IE) mobile mode
« Reply #8 on: December 08, 2022, 12:49:03 am »
Ok my friend, here you have a working solution. Now I force the control to do what you want to do.  8-)
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Re: how to use "user agent" in webbrowser (IE) mobile mode
« Reply #9 on: December 08, 2022, 01:35:44 am »
wow, thanks very much my friend, now it works fine  :)

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Re: how to use "user agent" in webbrowser (IE) mobile mode
« Reply #10 on: December 08, 2022, 03:43:00 am »
You are welcome and I need to say, take care, my forced way also affect any other browser on your system for current login session to windows.
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