For iOS google chrome, when a user hits the “Request desktop site” button what does the browser do to try to bring up a desktop site? I imagine some sort of header on the request that sites are looking for, or something similar?
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For iOS google chrome, when a user hits the “Request desktop site” button what does the browser do to try to bring up a desktop site? I imagine some sort of header on the request that sites are looking for, or something similar?
I think the only difference is the
User-Agent:header in the request.Here are the User-Agent headers sent by Chrome on my Android device:
Notice the word “Mobile’ in the first one, and also the mention of Android system and device. Checking these, I see that it also provides false information – namely X11 and x86_64 – to closely match the value sent by the Desktop Linux version of Chrome.