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Royal Bank of Canada
Royal Bank of Canada
CA
Royal Bank of Canada
Posted: Jan 20, 2020
Last activity: Jan 20, 2020
Last activity: 20 Jan 2020 14:27 EST
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Google User Agent String deprecation in Chrome 81
Google intends to deprecate the “navigator.userAgent” method used to access the User Agent string, suggested to start in March with Chrome 81 (ref article on "9to5google.com" - https://ww.9to5google.com/2020/01/14/google-deprecate-chrome-user-agent-string-privacy/#).
Several questions arise from reading this article :
- Which version of Pega 7.x/8.x use the http user agent string?
- Does Pega use the user agent string to generate/optimize HTML specific to device/browsers?
- Are there any browser versions from the platform support guide that should be avoided with this deprecation due to performance/security considerations?
Please let me know what Pega is doing to prepare for this change.
Posted: 5 years ago
Northbridge
Northbridge
CA
Pega still seems to use http user agent string to generate browser specific mark-up. This is being used from 7.x and still being used in 8.3 as well.
Here's an example in rule RUF 'BrowserIsFirefoxOrSafari'
List h = ((com.pega.pegarules.priv.PegaAPI)tools).getHTTPHeaders("User-Agent");
String s = (String)h.get(0);
if(s.indexOf("Firefox/") > 0)
return true;
else
return false;
Pega would update the Platform Support guides if useragent gets deprecated. But as of now, the current support guides doesn't have any chrome version browser restrictions for 8.x till 8.3.
-Shruthi