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LHolleman
LHolleman

Reputation: 2596

Open external website in the webview

How do I open external websites inside the webview used by phonegap. If I'm using

window.location.href = "www.example.com"

It will open the browser and load the website instead.

I found https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugins/tree/master/Android/ChildBrowser but this will open a modal with the website.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1491

Answers (1)

Tronix117
Tronix117

Reputation: 1985

In your PhoneGap.plist add under the ExternalHosts key: *.example.com. It's in fact a white list to prevent your application going to non-authorized url, otherwise it will open in the webbrowser which is kind of a sandbox environment.

Anyway I don't think it will work, if you leave the PhoneGap structure by going to an other url, in addition to the whitelist, you should use an iframe to handle external links.

EDIT: for Android open your config.xml file and add the following:

  • To allow access to every domains: <access origin="*" />
  • To a specific domain: <access origin="http://phonegap.com" subdomains="true" />

You can also check the documentation of this file.

Upvotes: 3

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