Question

In my code, I load a URL (an aspx file) in a UIWebview. It loads and displays fine.

[webView loadRequest:requestObject];

I want to inspect the HTML content being loaded on the iPhone. When I display it in UIWebview using the following code, the UIWebview display format is broken, showing lines and tables in word-wrap format.

NSString *htmlContent = [[NSString alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:inputUrl encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding  error:&error];

[webView loadHTMLString:htmlContent baseURL:nil];

What could cause the difference, when a file is opened using loadRequest versus loadHTMLString as above?

Answer 1

Here is the code for anyone who may be interested:

    NSString* userAgent = @"Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A334 Safari/7534.48.3"; // user agent for iPhone browser
    NSMutableURLRequest* request = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] initWithURL:inputUrl]; // ARC enabled
    [request setValue:userAgent forHTTPHeaderField:@"User-Agent"]; //setting user agent
    NSURLResponse* response = nil;
    NSError* error = nil;
    NSData* data = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:&response error:&error];
    NSString *str = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]; // ARC enabled
    NSURL *base = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://mainwebsitehere"];
    [webView loadHTMLString:str baseURL:base];