Bowser is not recognized as a browser able to support WebRTC

[fbartels]

Hi,

I am not quite sure if this is a problem in spreed-webrtc or maybe even in Bowser itself, but wanted to report it here first.

Bowser is an iOS browser made specially to support WebRTC:
http://www.openwebrtc.org/bowser/ & https://github.com/EricssonResearch/bowser

But sadly when opening for example spreed.me on bowser there is an error message that the current browser does not support WebRTC. I traced the error message back to:

spreed-webrtc/static/js/controllers/uicontroller.js

Line 785 in 873314e

if (!$window.webrtcDetectedVersion || $window.webrtcDetectedBrowser === "edge") {

This seems to be a general check, so it could be that Bowser is not announcing support correctly.

What do you think?

Was also reported on the Zarafa forums: https://forums.zarafa.com/showthread.php?12167-iOS-Browsers-Not-Recognized

[leonklingele]

This issue likely has been fixed in the latest release 0.24.9.
It seems you're still running 0.24.8?

[fbartels]

I tried it on spreed.me which announces itself as 0.24.9

[longsleep]

Currently Bowser is not on the list of supported browsers. Bowser has many issues and fails to load the web client properly. See https://github.com/strukturag/spreed-webrtc/wiki/Supported-Browsers-and-Errata

@leonklingele - Webrtc adapter does not support Bowser (neither the old nor the current version)

[fbartels]

Hi Simon,

thanks for the update.

[longsleep]

I am willing to try to get support for Bowser into Spreed WebRTC. On Spreed.ME it will not work, until Bowser has fixed the Javascript injection to work on sites which use a CSP (see EricssonResearch/bowser#74)

[longsleep]

The UI breackage fix for Bowser has landed in https://github.com/strukturag/spreed-webrtc/releases/tag/v0.24.10 and was deployed to Spreed.ME - so at least the UI should no longer be broken. Sill Bowser will not work, because of the insecure Javascript injection.

[longsleep]

@fbartels Seems like a fix has landed in Bowser EricssonResearch/bowser#72 and they seem to think that it should work now. Do you have a way to test?

[fbartels]

Interesting. So far I don't see the upgrade to 0.6.1, I will try again against the spreed.me server once I have the update.

[fbartels]

Hi Simon,

I just retried with Bowser 0.6.1 and the server at spreed.me (wich reports to be at 0.24.10). Sadly there is still the popup when accessing the server that the browser does not support calls (writing chats is possible though).

[longsleep]

@fbartels yes - they have reopened EricssonResearch/bowser#74 - it seems that they want us to test something. Maybe you could have a look?

[longsleep]

Closing this for now. We will take another look at Bower once it has evolved more and supports restrictive CSPs.