Hi There, Im trapping link clicked information in a UIWebView in the shouldStartLoadWithRequest delegate. I am using mainDocumentURL to get the url of the linked clicked. This shows the complete url but I need JUST the name of the page i.e .html, .htm etc requested. I cant see any property that would return this. Do i need to parse and extract this my self or does anyone know if there is a property or method in NSURLRequest that will return this.
Many thanks for your help. tony
I think you mean the path of the URL. The code below extracts a string, s, whose value is @"/cheese.html".
NSURL* u = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.wibble.com/cheese.html"];
NSString* s = [u path];
Have a look at the documentation for RFC 1808 which tells you how a URL is made up, and then read Apple's documentation for NSURL, which tells you how to extract those parts of the URL.
NSURL can extract most of the URL elements. I suspect you mean the path which can be accessed with the path message.
If you really want the extension from the path I suggest you use path and then examine the NSString returned or, convert the whole URL into a string by sending an absoluteString message. Trimming the extension from an NSString can be performed many ways.
If I'm understanding you correctly, you want to convert to an NSString and then use its methods. Starting with your NSURLRequest, you'd do something like this (note, I typed this into a web page and have not compiled it):
NSURL *url = [request URL];
NSString *filename = [[url path] lastPathComponent];
If your URL us something like http://www.foo.com/bar/baz.html, this will give you "baz.html".