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Scrungepipes
Scrungepipes

Reputation: 37581

Is it possible to tell if a web page being loaded is remote versus local?

Within UIWebView:shouldStartLoadWithRequest:, I'd like to know if the page being loaded is a local file or a remote file. Is there an easy way of finding this out?

I suppose every time a file is loaded I could search the filesystem looking for the file, but is there another way?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 125

Answers (2)

KPM
KPM

Reputation: 10608

Yes it is possible. You should use a regular expression to test against the hostname. Local pages won't match the regular expression. 

- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType {
    static NSString *regexp = @"^(([a-zA-Z]|[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9-]*[a-zA-Z0-9])[.])+([A-Za-z]|[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9-]*[A-Za-z0-9])$";
    NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"SELF MATCHES %@", regexp];

    if ([predicate evaluateWithObject:request.URL.host]) {
        [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:request.URL];
        return NO; 
    } else {
        return YES; 
    }
}

Upvotes: 0

Jeffery Thomas
Jeffery Thomas

Reputation: 42588

You should be able to tell the kind of request it is by the kind of URL.

It should be as simple as file:… vs http:… or https:….

Upvotes: 1

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