Improve WebView spoofing (#3678)

- Spoof `Sec-CH-UA` client hints to match the user agent
- Fix `X-Requested-With` spoofing leaking to unrelated callers
- Update default user agent to Chrome 149
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AntsyLich
2026-08-02 20:05:21 +06:00
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parent d7f3ceef5c
commit 55be95dd5d
11 changed files with 71 additions and 7 deletions
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@@ -14,8 +14,15 @@ The format is a modified version of [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.co
### Added
- Add Category filtering for the Updates tab ([@MajorTanya](https://github.com/MajorTanya)) ([#3589](https://github.com/mihonapp/mihon/pull/3589))
### Changed
- Update default user agent to Chrome 149 ([@AntsyLich](https://github.com/AntsyLich)) ([#3678](https://github.com/mihonapp/mihon/pull/3678))
### Improved
- Spoof `Sec-CH-UA` client hints in WebView to match the user agent ([@AntsyLich](https://github.com/AntsyLich)) ([#3678](https://github.com/mihonapp/mihon/pull/3678))
### Fixed
- Fixed extension installation with shizuku installer ([@NGB-Was-Taken](https://github.com/NGB-Was-Taken)) ([#3676](https://github.com/mihonapp/mihon/pull/3676))
- Fixed `X-Requested-With` spoofing leaking to unrelated callers ([@AntsyLich](https://github.com/AntsyLich)) ([#3678](https://github.com/mihonapp/mihon/pull/3678))
## [v0.20.2] - 2026-08-01
### Added
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ import eu.kanade.tachiyomi.BuildConfig
import eu.kanade.tachiyomi.R
import eu.kanade.tachiyomi.util.system.getHtml
import eu.kanade.tachiyomi.util.system.setDefaultSettings
import eu.kanade.tachiyomi.util.system.setUserAgent
import kotlinx.coroutines.launch
import tachiyomi.i18n.MR
import tachiyomi.presentation.core.components.material.Scaffold
@@ -72,6 +73,7 @@ fun WebViewScreenContent(
onNavigateUp: () -> Unit,
initialTitle: String?,
url: String,
defaultUserAgentProvider: () -> String,
onShare: (String) -> Unit,
onOpenInBrowser: (String) -> Unit,
onClearCookies: (String) -> Unit,
@@ -340,9 +342,7 @@ fun WebViewScreenContent(
WebView.setWebContentsDebuggingEnabled(true)
}
headers["user-agent"]?.let {
webView.settings.userAgentString = it
}
webView.setUserAgent(headers["user-agent"] ?: defaultUserAgentProvider())
},
onDispose = { webView ->
val window = windowStack.items.find { it.webView == webView }
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@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ import android.content.Context
import android.content.Intent
import android.content.IntentFilter
import android.os.Build
import android.os.Looper
import android.webkit.WebView
import androidx.core.content.ContextCompat
import androidx.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleObserver
@@ -231,7 +230,7 @@ class App : Application(), DefaultLifecycleObserver, SingletonImageLoader.Factor
override fun getPackageName(): String {
try {
// Override the value passed as X-Requested-With in WebView requests
val stackTrace = Looper.getMainLooper().thread.stackTrace
val stackTrace = Thread.currentThread().stackTrace
val isChromiumCall = stackTrace.any { trace ->
trace.className.lowercase() in setOf("org.chromium.base.buildinfo", "org.chromium.base.apkinfo") &&
trace.methodName.lowercase() in setOf("getall", "getpackagename", "<init>")
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ class WebViewActivity : BaseActivity() {
initialTitle = intent.extras?.getString(TITLE_KEY),
url = url,
headers = headers,
defaultUserAgentProvider = network::defaultUserAgentProvider,
onUrlChange = { assistUrl = it },
onShare = this::shareWebpage,
onOpenInBrowser = this::openInBrowser,
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ class WebViewScreen(
initialTitle = initialTitle,
url = url,
headers = viewModel.headers,
defaultUserAgentProvider = viewModel::defaultUserAgentProvider,
onUrlChange = { assistUrl = it },
onShare = { viewModel.shareWebpage(context, it) },
onOpenInBrowser = { viewModel.openInBrowser(context, it) },
@@ -67,4 +67,6 @@ class WebViewViewModel(
logcat { "Cleared $cleared cookies for: $url" }
}
}
fun defaultUserAgentProvider() = network.defaultUserAgentProvider()
}
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@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ dependencies {
api(libs.kotlinx.serialization.jsonOkio)
api(libs.androidx.preference)
implementation(libs.androidx.webkit)
implementation(libs.jsoup)
@@ -14,6 +14,6 @@ class NetworkPreferences(
val defaultUserAgent: Preference<String> = preferenceStore.getString(
"default_user_agent",
"Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/141.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36",
"Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/149.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36",
)
}
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import android.widget.Toast
import eu.kanade.tachiyomi.util.system.DeviceUtil
import eu.kanade.tachiyomi.util.system.WebViewUtil
import eu.kanade.tachiyomi.util.system.setDefaultSettings
import eu.kanade.tachiyomi.util.system.setUserAgent
import eu.kanade.tachiyomi.util.system.toast
import okhttp3.Headers
import okhttp3.Interceptor
@@ -84,7 +85,7 @@ abstract class WebViewInterceptor(
return WebView(context).apply {
setDefaultSettings()
// Avoid sending empty User-Agent, Chromium WebView will reset to default if empty
settings.userAgentString = request.header("User-Agent") ?: defaultUserAgentProvider()
setUserAgent(request.header("User-Agent") ?: defaultUserAgentProvider())
}
}
}
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ import android.content.pm.PackageManager
import android.webkit.CookieManager
import android.webkit.WebSettings
import android.webkit.WebView
import androidx.webkit.UserAgentMetadata
import androidx.webkit.WebSettingsCompat
import androidx.webkit.WebViewFeature
import kotlinx.coroutines.suspendCancellableCoroutine
import logcat.LogPriority
import tachiyomi.core.common.util.system.logcat
@@ -99,6 +102,53 @@ fun WebView.setDefaultSettings() {
CookieManager.getInstance().acceptThirdPartyCookies(this)
}
/**
* Sets the user agent along with the matching user agent metadata, which Chromium uses to populate
* the `Sec-CH-UA` client hints. Without this the hints keep advertising the real WebView brand and
* version, contradicting the spoofed user agent.
*/
fun WebView.setUserAgent(userAgent: String) {
settings.userAgentString = userAgent
if (!WebViewFeature.isFeatureSupported(WebViewFeature.USER_AGENT_METADATA)) return
val versionMatch = CHROME_VERSION_REGEX.find(userAgent) ?: return
val majorVersion = versionMatch.groupValues[1]
val fullVersion = majorVersion + versionMatch.groupValues[2].ifEmpty { ".0.0.0" }
try {
val metadata = WebSettingsCompat.getUserAgentMetadata(settings)
val brandVersionList = metadata.brandVersionList.map { brandVersion ->
val brand = when (brandVersion.brand) {
WEBVIEW_BRAND -> CHROME_BRAND
CHROMIUM_BRAND -> CHROMIUM_BRAND
else -> return@map brandVersion
}
UserAgentMetadata.BrandVersion.Builder()
.setBrand(brand)
.setMajorVersion(majorVersion)
.setFullVersion(fullVersion)
.build()
}
WebSettingsCompat.setUserAgentMetadata(
settings,
UserAgentMetadata.Builder(metadata)
.setBrandVersionList(brandVersionList)
.setFullVersion(fullVersion)
.build(),
)
} catch (e: Exception) {
logcat(LogPriority.ERROR, e) { "Failed to set user agent metadata" }
}
}
private const val WEBVIEW_BRAND = "Android WebView"
private const val CHROMIUM_BRAND = "Chromium"
private const val CHROME_BRAND = "Google Chrome"
private val CHROME_VERSION_REGEX = """Chrome/(\d+)(\.[\d.]+)?""".toRegex()
private fun WebView.getWebViewMajorVersion(): Int {
val uaRegexMatch = """.*Chrome/(\d+)\..*""".toRegex().matchEntire(getDefaultUserAgentString())
return if (uaRegexMatch != null && uaRegexMatch.groupValues.size > 1) {
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@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ androidx-test-espresso = "3.7.0"
androidx-test-junit = "1.3.0"
androidx-test-uiautomator = "2.4.0"
androidx-viewPager = "1.1.0"
androidx-webkit = "1.16.0"
androidx-work = "2.11.2"
archive = "1.1.6"
coil = "3.5.0"
@@ -113,6 +114,7 @@ androidx-test-espresso-core = { module = "androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core",
androidx-test-junit = { module = "androidx.test.ext:junit", version.ref = "androidx-test-junit" }
androidx-test-uiautomator = { module = "androidx.test.uiautomator:uiautomator", version.ref = "androidx-test-uiautomator" }
androidx-viewPager = { module = "androidx.viewpager:viewpager", version.ref = "androidx-viewPager" }
androidx-webkit = { module = "androidx.webkit:webkit", version.ref = "androidx-webkit" }
androidx-work = { module = "androidx.work:work-runtime", version.ref = "androidx-work" }
archive = { module = "me.zhanghai.android.libarchive:library", version.ref = "archive" }
coil-compose = { module = "io.coil-kt.coil3:coil-compose", version.ref = "coil" }