OneNote 2016

[J. Scott Elblein]

I've not looked into the source code to see for myself, but is it possible to force the code doing the call to the URL to be identified as a known browser?

I just noticed in OneNote 2016, when clicking on a hyperlink to a Facebook URL, the BC titlebar will switch to something like "facebook.com/unsupportedbrowser", and won't go to the final FB page that was in the link.

My guess is, during the BC lookup, it's not identifying itself as a known browser, so FB returns that URL instead. Maybe some sort of (weak) security defense.

[guy]

I wonder who is causing the unsupported brower - OneNote or Facebook. I think FB. You probably have reveal shorten URLs turned on and BC is doing a quick lookup.

[guy]

And to answer my own question. It is Facebook. when during the URL de-shortening, Facebook redirects to that. Now, what do I send as browser? I guess I could use FF.

[guy]

I just pushed a code change that fixes this. Be default, BC 2 will send a user-agent string of "Mozilla/5.0". this will be in the next version - probably late April, early May.

[J. Scott Elblein]

Yep, I figured it was FB doing it during the reveal. Funny thing is, the link I have in OneNote isn't actually shortened, so it wouldn't really need to do that step in this case, but I'm not sure it makes a huge difference anyway.

I think the standard Chrome or FF User Agent strings would probably work fine. Might also be a nice thing to add in the settings; a combo box with a built-in set of various UA's, plus a text field for the user to enter a custom one?

[J. Scott Elblein]

Awesome, thanks for the quick work!