HTMLViewer is old browser?

General
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I’m trying to use the HTMLViewer component but Google tells me it’s an old browser… And I can’t go on. Why?
I’m using Xojo 2019r1.

Try this:

HTMLViewer1.LoadURL "https://mail.google.com"

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Mac? Win? Linux?

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I’m on Win 10 x64 using Xojo 2018R3 and no errors here

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For MacOS, you can use WKWebViewControlMBS to use WebKit 2.x in a 64-bit application and get the newer WebKit engine.
The HTMLViewer on MacOS uses WebKit 1.x.

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I use MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) with macOS Mojave 10.14.4

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This is the Google Message:

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I just tried it from 2018R3 on a Mac. Using Webkit or Native I get in but with the message:

“You have been redirected to the basic HTML version because this browser is not supported. To use standard view please upgrade to a supported browser.”

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If I click on “Go to new version” I can’t go on.

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Yes @Karen Atkocius , this is the Google answer!

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@Christian Schmitz , I tryed WKWebViewControlMBS but get same message.

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did you try WKWebViewControlMBS in a 64-bit app?

Or if they check user agent, it may be worth to set user agent and pretend to be Safari.

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e.g.
with htmlview.CustomUserAgentMBS as String
or
with WKWebViewControlMBS.customUserAgent as String

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Take a look at this:
HTMLViewer.UserAgent

Try setting the UserAgent to the settings for a specific browser.

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As I’m on a Mac I changed the UserAgent in the open event to this:

[code]Dim agent as string = “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/603.3.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.1.2 Safari/603.3.8”
Me.UserAgent = agent

me.LoadURL “https://mail.google.com”[/code]

and Gmail worked normally

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Some other useful information on this thread: https://forum.xojo.com/45499-change-the-user-agent-name/0

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google (for chrome), firefox and some of the other browsers are pushing hard to always be using the latest version, even it has been out for literally a minute. I will update my browser then 2 days later its telling me that its outdated and “has to be updated to a newer version”.

so I am betting that your user-agent is not telling gmail what it wants to hear so they are complaining. just like @Karen Atkocius said.

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[quote=436964:@Christian Schmitz]e.g.
with htmlview.CustomUserAgentMBS as String
or
with WKWebViewControlMBS.customUserAgent as String[/quote]

I tried this example, but I have the same problem.

@Karen Atkocius Yesss! So it works!

[code]Dim agent as string = “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/603.3.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.1.2 Safari/603.3.8”
Me.UserAgent = agent

me.LoadURL “https://mail.google.com”[/code]

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Safari string (from El Capitan: 10.11.6, better use Safari String from Mojave):

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.1.2 Safari/605.1.15
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When I visit https://www.whatsmyua.info/ without setting UserAgent, I get:

so the only things missing are Version and Safari.

Because this is the first time I use UserAgent, I expected this code to work:

Me.UserAgent = Me.UserAgent + " Version/10.1.2 Safari/603.3.8" Me.LoadURL "https://mail.google.com"
but I keep getting “This version of Safari is no longer supported. Please upgrade to a supported browser. Dismiss”

It turns out that the above code just set the UserAgent as “Version/11.1.2 Safari/603.3.8”. You learn something new every day.