Question

I am currently developing an iPhone app and would like to implement the ability to download files (specifically pdf, mp3, doc and ppt files) from the internet. I have created the UIWebView, but want to know the best way of capturing the files when they are linked to in the webview and then download them to a specified folder in the documents directory.

Any advice/links to tutorials etc would be much appreciated.

Cheers

Answer 1

Have found the method for capturing links. It’s a delegate method, so make sure that all of the hooks are in place:

- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView*)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest*)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType {

    //CAPTURE USER LINK-CLICK.
    if (navigationType == UIWebViewNavigationTypeLinkClicked) {
        NSURL *URL = [request URL]; 
        NSLog(@"url is: %s ", URL);
    }   
    return YES;   
}

From here

Will post my final code once I’m done.