I'm looking for a solution for reading the http status code with a UIWebView.
I have found this page on the topic How do I get the last HTTP Status Code from a UIWebView? but i cannot use AsiHttpRequest in my case.
Si I was wondering if somebody have found a solution since 2009, and if something similar to NSLog(#"Status code = %#",[webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:#"document.status"]);
could possibly work.
Thanks,
I don't think you can get it from the UIWebView, but I think it would work to have the result of an HTTP request put into an NSString, then parse the status code out of the header part of that string, thing feed that string to a UIWebView.
See the NSURL Class Reference and the URL Loading Programming Guide.
A possible alternative would be to implement an HTTP proxy directly inside your App, then feed a localhost URL to UIWebView. Your proxy would just make an HTTP connection with the web server and sit passively by while UIWebView drives the HTTP protocol. You then snoop on the incoming data before passing it on to UIWebView from your proxy. That would avoid the need to buffer the whole page in an NSString before feeding it to your UIWebView.
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Can anyone tell me how to send a file to server and a username. I tried to set HTTP body with the content of the file and use GET method to set username but it doesn't work and encounter the exact situation as this post:( this is a bug) :
NSURLRequest cannot handle HTTP body when method is not POST?
As the post says, can anyone show me how to use PUT method as in both the ios client and php server or show me another method ?
I am very new to iOS and I've just begun reading about HTTP requests and POST and GET methods. Let's say, for example, I want to have the user input a string, and then send that data to a website, (for this example, say www.rhymezone.com), search with that string, and get the results of that search within my application. Is this done with an HTTP post method? Or what? Any help / examples would be greatly appreciated. Also, if there are tutorials for this stuff, that would be appreciated as well.
For sake of example, here is what I've tried:
NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:#"http://www.rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi?Word=test&typeofrhyme=perfect&org1=syl&org2=l&org3=y"]];
NSURLConnection *connection = [NSURLConnection connectionWithRequest:request delegate:self];
- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveData:(NSData *)data
{
NSString *dataAsString=[[NSString alloc]initWithData:data encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(#"data: %#",dataAsString);
}
This outputs the entire source of the website (searching for rhymes of the word test). While I can certainly write a method to go through the source of the website and extract the words it returns, I feel like this is not correct. My way of getting rhymes of different words is simply to change the URL here, so where it says 'test' I change it to whatever the user inputs.
Thanks
Look into AFNetworking and RestKit.
It's easiest if you're calling a public API that uses JSON/XML, and then use a built in parser or a parser library to extract the data you want.
Simply downloading the contents of a URL is an HTTP GET request, such as going to a website.
This link talks a bit more about the difference between GET and POST.
When do you use POST and when do you use GET?
If I understand correctly what you are trying to do, I fear that the only option for you is sending the HTTP request (GET or POST according to what the website expects, just like you are doing) and then parse the result to filter all the information that is not relevant.
An alternative approach would be possible if you were using a website offering a REST API, or a JSON API so that you send the query and you get back just the information you need (in a specific format).
So, it depends strongly on the website you are using, but for the generic case, the only option you have is parsing.
(Or, you could display the full content of the page through UIWebView. This would not require explicitly setting up a connection, but I am not sure it is what you are trying to do.)
You are looking for a way to communicate with your website from your iOS application. The common approach is to get the string entered by the user, encode and send it as http request to a sort of script (webservice). This script will do all the stuff you want (search with this string). Then re-send the result to the client (your iOS app) as a http response which will be parsed in your iOS app(with a JSON parser for instance).
There is good resources around that, as an example, you may read this: http://www.raywenderlich.com/2965/how-to-write-an-ios-app-that-uses-a-web-service
I'm using Fiddler to debug some particularly painful AJAX code, and in the POST requests that are being sent across to the server the Request BODY is UrlEncoded. This leads to me having to cut and paste the text into an online app to UrlDecode the text into the JSON object for the request. There has to be a better way to do this.
Does anyone know how I can make fiddler automatically URLDecode the body of the POST Request?
Well, you can simply press CTRL+E to decode locally. But depending on the format, you may also be able to use the WebForms Inspector.
Fiddler can manipulate the HTTP request and response in any way you like:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/23615119/264181
I am working with WebView based application, in that I had a problem with http 404 errors when I tried to load an url. I just want to show an alert when this happens. Can you guys please suggest me that how to trigger it and is there are any delegate methods fired when this happens?. Please suggest.
Thanks in adv,
S.
You can not check the status code for UIWebView requests. I rarely use webviews to do requests and when I do I don't care what the status codes are. I usually use NSURLConnection or ASIHTTPRequest to do requests. If you have to know the status of the http request, then do it using an NSURLRequest object and set the delegate to receive the response status code.
I am looking to find out if a web page has changed, I was going to use the content length of the web page but have not seen a way to do so. Any ideas? Or can anyone think of another way to check periodically if a web page has changed?
If you mean with changed wether navigation has occured, you could use a custom UIWebViewDelegate and set a flag when e.g. -(void)webViewDidFinishLoad: occured.
You might want to check UIWebViews property request to check wether the URL actually differs.
If you want to check wether the content has changed you could retrieve it e.g. like this:
NSString* script = #"document.body.innerHTML";
NSString* content = [webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:script];
Or retrieve the length e.g. like this:
NSString* script = #"document.body.innerHTML.length";
int length = [[webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:script] integerValue];
I am assuming you want to know if the web page you are already showing is different than the web page you would get if you hit the server again.
You cannot do much with the documented interfaces in UIWebView.
You can use an NSURLConnection to ask for just the headers of a web page and not the actual content. Once you get the headers, look at fields like "Last-Modified" and "Content-Length" to see if it has changed. You can also look into the 304 not modified response code.
Set the HTTPMethod of a new NSURLRequest to HEAD instead of GET to not get the body.
Set your class as the delegate of an NSURLConnection created with that request.
Handle the following delegate callback and examine headers in the response.
-(void) connection:(NSURLConnection *)inConnection didReceiveResponse:(NSURLResponse *)inResponse;
For more information look here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol