Question

I am using Webview to implement browser capabilities in my project. Lets say someone searches for download.com in google, searches for a software (in download.com), and then clicks on the download link. A request will be made to the server which will respond back with the respective download file. Now is there any way I can catch the server response so that I can send it to some other app (lets say, to a download manager)? Note that I don’t know when will the user click on the download link.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

WebView exposes a Download event that you could hook into to catch when something is going to be downloaded:

webView.Download += (sender, args) =>
                    {
                        Console.WriteLine(args.Url);
                    };

Alternatively, you could create your own implementation of an IDownloadListener:

public class MyDownloadListener : Java.Lang.Object, IDownloadListener
{
    public void OnDownloadStart(string url, string userAgent, string contentDisposition, string mimetype, long contentLength)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(url);
    }
}

and provide that to the WebView:

var listener = new MyDownloadListener();
webView.SetDownloadListener(listener);