ASP.NET MVC application, How to route if application accessed from Safari Browser on Ipad

Question

My Web Application on our corporate intranet utilizes windows authentication. If this application is accessed via the Safari, the safari browser does not support windows authentication.

I do not have a sign/login page for this application but seems like I will have to create one if the application is accessed via Safari browser. I can create the authentication page, I need to understand, How I could detect that the user is a safari user and route to a view which would enable the user to add their network credentials to authenticate.

Thanks in advance.

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

You can use the display modes feature, and create a display mode that works only for iPad. To detect the iPad, use this technique. Create a custom mobile display mode using this technique, where you inherit from DefaultDisplayMode and supply the ContextCondition.

I did this for the Opera Mobile emulator, and all you have to do is tweak it to check for the iPad (in the first link).

public class OperaMobiDisplayMode : DefaultDisplayMode
{
    public OperaMobiDisplayMode()
        : base("Mobile")
    {
        ContextCondition = (context => IsMobile(context.GetOverriddenUserAgent()));
    }
}

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 17 '13 at 00:49

You can redirect according to the user-agent that its being using. You can use a route constrain to do it.

For example you should create a custom constraint that check for the user agent. To create a route constraint you need to create a class that implement IRouteConstraint

public class UserAgentConstraint : IRouteConstraint 
{ 
   private string _userAgent; 
   public UserAgentConstraint(string userAgentParam) 
   { 
       _userAgent= userAgentParam; 
   } 

   public bool Match(HttpContextBase httpContext, Route route, string parameterName, 
                     RouteValueDictionary values, RouteDirection routeDirection) 
   { 
       return httpContext.Request.UserAgent != null && 
                          httpContext.Request.UserAgent.Contains(_userAgent); 
   } 
}

and then apply this constraint to the route you need it and send the request to the controller/action you wont, for example:

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes) 
{ 
    routes.MapRoute("MyRoute", "{controller}/{action}", 
        new { controller = "Home", action = "LoginForIPad",
              httpMethod = new UserAgentConstraint("iPad")}); 
}

ASP.NET MVC application, How to route if application accessed from Safari Browser on Ipad

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