Question

I have a this URL and I cannot seem to get the code below to work

In this code urlToGrab = http://192.1.1.233:8000/en-US/app/search/flashtimeline?auto_pause=true&q=search%20host%3D%22JRVIN-LT%22

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:urlToGrab];
[webView loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url]];

This code doesn’t work. When setting breakpoints ‘url’is null. If I use “http://192.1.1.233:8000/en-US/app/search/flashtimeline?auto_pause=true&q=search” it will work.

Answer 1

You must URL-decode the string first. Example:

NSString * urlToGrab = [[@"http://192.1.1.233:8000/en-US/app/search/flashtimeline?auto_pause=true&q=search%20host%3D%22JRVIN-LT%22"
    stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"+" withString:@" "]
    stringByReplacingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:urlToGrab];
[webView loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url]];

Replacing “+” with ” ” is just in case you have another encoded URL that contains “+”.