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stesch79
Iron Contributor
Jul 18, 2019

Extend User Agent String

Is it possible to extend the user agent string with custom values like in MSIE (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent) without using a extension...
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stesch79
Iron Contributor
Aug 15, 2019

David Rubino David, could you please follow-up on this request? Would be much appreciated!

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    David Rubino
    Former Employee
    Aug 19, 2019

    stesch79 sorry about the long delay! I am reaching out to our User Agent String experts to see what they think about this. In the meantime, if you send us feedback using the smiley button, we'll get it tracked as a feature request. 

     

    Thanks, 

     

    -David

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      scottlow
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      Aug 19, 2019

      David Rubino stesch79 Unfortunately, we have no plans of adding this functionality back to Microsoft Edge since it was the root cause of a number of compatibility issues in the past; sites with corrupted/or misconfigured registry values would have unknown UA strings, which in turn caused sites to break.

       

      What's the scenario you're currently using this functionality for? It'd be great to understand if there are other avenues that could be explored.

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        cbetant
        Copper Contributor
        Feb 18, 2020

        scottlow 

        the scenario we have is to allow our ERP portal to identify devices having SAPGUI or not. With that custom UA we can define the portal to present pages that will launch SAPGUI, otherwise present to user the webUI

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