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TechnologyGuy
TechnologyGuy

Reputation: 141

How do you detect a redirect in an UIWebView iOS

I am using Xcode for a social media network site and I have a quick about the login/ signup process. For instance, I have a UIWebView that is linked to the login API page. (ex. www._.com/api_login.php?) When the user logs in with their credentials on that page the website redirects them to the success page (www._.com/api_success.php?) with the API authentication token that is stored in the iOS app for user specific tasks embedded in the website source code.

Here is my question: How can I tell Xcode to execute Javascript to grab the authentication token once it is on the (www._.com/api_success.php?) page? Keep in mind that the URL is specific to the user and has a user specific api key at the end of the link. (www._.com/api_success.php?apiconnectkey=123456789)

Thanks in advance for help with this, Technology Guy

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4708

Answers (1)

Lou Franco
Lou Franco

Reputation: 89172

I'm not sure I follow 100%, but here are some things to look at:

Implement UIWebViewDelegate in your view controller and set the delegate property, then implement this message

 -(BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:

Docs

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/uikit/reference/UIWebViewDelegate_Protocol/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/occ/intfm/UIWebViewDelegate/webView:shouldStartLoadWithRequest:navigationType:

This will let you see each URL that is being set on the web view. So, you could grab apiconnectkey.

Also, you can execute JavaScript on the page with

  [self.webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:@"getToken()"]

where getToken() is a function on the page. This will return a string.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/uikit/reference/UIWebView_Class/Reference/Reference.html

Upvotes: 4

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