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AndrewSB
AndrewSB

Reputation: 951

UIApplication sharedapplication openURL not working

I have this method

- (IBAction)facebookButtonPress:(id)sender {
    NSLog(@"fb hit");
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:[@"www.facebook.com/asbreckenridge" stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]]];
}

and I don't understand why safari doesnt open the link. I get the 'fb hit' logged, so the method is being called, but it doesnt open the link in Safari, what am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 12

Views: 18908

Answers (3)

Khawar Ali
Khawar Ali

Reputation: 3506

Try it without the encoding like this.

- (IBAction)facebookButtonPress:(id)sender {
    NSLog(@"fb hit");
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"www.facebook.com/asbreckenridge"]];
}

Also try changing the URL to http://www.facebook.com/asbreckenridge

Upvotes: 8

Igor
Igor

Reputation: 12303

In my case problem was in extra "/" at the end.

doesn't work:
@"http://www.facebook.com/asbreckenridge/"

works fine:
@"http://www.facebook.com/asbreckenridge"

Upvotes: 1

Hermann Klecker
Hermann Klecker

Reputation: 14068

Try this: 

- (IBAction)facebookButtonPress:(id)sender {
NSLog(@"fb hit");
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.facebook.com/asbreckenridge"]];
}

Upvotes: 7

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