iOS Development: How can I force a UIWebView to load the non-mobile version of Facebook?

Question

I\'m diving into iOS development and when I try to load a specific Facebook Fan Page in a UIWebView, it loads the mobile version of the site, which only loads the wall of the Fa

Answer 1

Facebook is most likely analyzing the user agent to determine which version to serve. If this is the case then changing the user agent to a desktop browser user agent would cause facebook to change which page version is served. You can change the user agent on NSMutableURLRequest like so:

[request setValue:@"some-user-agent" forHTTPHeaderField:@"User_Agent"];

Answer 2

Do this in viewDidLoad (or somewhere else before loading UIWebView):

NSDictionary *userAgent = @{ @"UserAgent" : @"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0" };
[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] registerDefaults:userAgent];