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Changing User Agent in OSMDroid

Is it possible to change User Agent I send with every tile request in OSMDroid?

I'm currently getting 403 Forbidden error whenever I try to download a tile (as described in another SO question), probably because OSMDroid itself has been banned.

Solution

  • It looks like the only way to specify the User Agent is to modify OSMDroid's MapTileDownloader.loadTile() method in the following way:

    final HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
final HttpUriRequest head = new HttpGet(tileURLString);
head.setHeader("User-Agent", "OSMDroid"); // Add this line
final HttpResponse response = client.execute(head);

    It solves the 403 Forbidden tile download problem.