get current URL of UIWebview

Question

Hey guys,

I already tried getting the current url of my UIWebView with: webview.request.URL. Unfortunately the NSURL was empty. Anything wrong here? I'am working with Xcode 3.2.2 beta 5.

The code above should be executed in the UIWebViews delegate didStartLoad...

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

You could try this:

NSString *currentURL = [webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:@"window.location"];

Answer 2

window.location via JS didn't work reliably for me, but this did:

currentURL = currentWebView.request.URL.absoluteString;

Credit: http://mohrt.blogspot.com/2008/10/getting-url-from-uiwebview.html