Question

I am storing website addresses from users in regular NSStrings.
Some are given as “www.somewebsite.com” and some as “http://somewebsiteothersite.org”.

My app should open a UIWebView and open that webpage:

    NSURLRequest *requestObj = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:[self websiteString]]];
    NSLog(@"visiting: %@",websiteString);
    [webView loadRequest:requestObj];

But what happens is that if the http:// is omitted, the UIWebView won’t open the page.

Is there a descent way to build the NSURL correctly for UIWebView?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Just add http:// if it’s not there?

if (![urlStr hasPrefix:@"http://"] && ![urlStr hasPrefix:@"https://"]) {
    urlStr = [@"http://" stringByAppendingString:urlStr];
}

beware of links that are intended to not have http:// for example ftp:// or mailto: