Qt 5.6 custom user agent not working

ThatDud3

How to change user agent using custom QWebEngineProfile
I tried to subclass QWebEngineProfile but it is not working

    QApplication a(argc, argv);

    CustomWebEngineProfile profile;
    QWebEngineView view;
    QWebEnginePage page((QWebEngineProfile*)&profile);
    view.setPage(&page);

    QVBoxLayout layout;
    layout.addWidget(&view);

    Widget w;
    w.setLayout(&layout);
    w.show();

    QTimer::singleShot(7000, &a, SLOT(quit()));
    qDebug() << "httpUserAgent: " << view.page()->profile()->httpUserAgent();
    // still prints the default user-agent with ...QtWebEngine/5.6.0
    // httpUserAgent:  "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) QtWebEngine/5.6.0 Chrome/45.0.2454.101 Safari/537.36"
    view.load(QUrl("http://whatsmyuseragent.com/"));

    return a.exec();

SGaist

Hi,

Out of curiosity who did you subclass QWebEngineProfile since its interface doesn't have any virtual method (not counting the inherited methods) ?

I haven't used that class yet but from the documentation setHttpUserAgent looks like what you might be looking for.

Hope it helps

ThatDud3

Yes I figured it out... The problem is a lot of new documentation (esp. 5.6) doesn't provide even the most simple usage examples even for such a simple thing as changing the user-agent.
Marking as solved.