Question

I am trying to access request object of UIWebView in webViewDidStartLoad in the following manner:

- (void) webViewDidStartLoad:(UIWebView *)webView {
    NSLog(@"req : %@", [webView request]);
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}

It displays following in console :
req : (null)

Is the above possible or I am doing something wrong?
down vote

I donot want to use it inside webView:shouldStartLoadWithRequest:)request navigationType: as this method does not get called always for goBack and goForward methods

Answer 1

Looks like you will still have to consider shouldStartLoadWithRequest.

Did some testing and it looks like the [webView request] is ‘one step behind’ in delegate methods.

This was the code:

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

    NSLog(@"req1a : %@", [request URL]);    
    NSLog(@"req1b : %@", [[webView request] URL]);    

    return YES;
}

- (void) webViewDidStartLoad:(UIWebView *)webView {

    NSLog(@"req2 : %@", [[webView request] URL]);    
}

And this were the results for initial (about:blank) and after click (some video stream, not actual printout) request:

initial request:

req1a : about:blank

req1b : (null)

req2 :

after click to a link:

req1a : xttp://origin.biokoda.tv/…

req1b : about:blank

req2 : about:blank

It looks like [webview request] is holding last loaded request.