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Rene
Rene

Reputation: 145

Swift webview PROXY

With the code below I create a webview navigating to a URL. It works perfectly. But I need this navigation to be through an HTTP proxy. How do I put proxy in a webview?

import UIKit
import WebKit

class ViewController: UIViewController, WKNavigationDelegate {
    var webView: WKWebView!

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        webView = WKWebView()
        webView.navigationDelegate = self
        view = webView

        let url = URL(string: "https://www.iphub.info")!
        webView.load(URLRequest(url: url))
        webView.allowsBackForwardNavigationGestures = true
    }
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1072

Answers (1)

dosi
dosi

Reputation: 476

Unfortunately, there's no simple way to achieve that.

You may intercept deprecated UIWebView with custom NSURLProtocol subclass, which utilizes NSURLSession inside. You'd easily set HTTP proxy configuration to the connectionProxyDictionary property of the NSURLSessionConfigurtion. Here's the example. That would work, but you may see slightly worse performance than with WKWebView.

Alternatively, you may consider using NetworkExtension.framework, if the proxy server supports tunneling. Here's a sample project which utilizes Network Extension.

Upvotes: 1

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