Is it possible to identify Android apps from http

Question

I mean, some apps will send http requests to certain servers, like some games or facebook. So is there a way to identify which app is sending it by looking at the http header?

Answer 1

So is there a way to identify which app is sending it?

Generally, no. Some apps might modify the user agent, but most probably leave it alone.

Answer 2

You might be able to identify the default headers, but since they can be altered by whatever program the client is running, there's no guarantees.

For what it's worth, here is the user-agent header my Android handset sends:

Moxilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2; en-us; T-Mobile G2 Build/FRF91) AppleWebKit/533.1(KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1

Answer 3

Almost all requests will have some form of identification in them. Often the server API requires this identification.

However, there is no general rule for how the clients identify themselves. As a human looking through the request logs, you will often be able to tell what app they are coming from; however, I doubt there is a standardized or automated way to do this.