iPhone UIWebview Loads on Simulator But not on Device - iphone

Question

I have a UIWebview on a Tab Bar that loads properly on the Simulator but not on the Device. Has anyone ever come across this situation? I've been looking all over the Google- machine for the last three days to no avail. Any help would be hugely appreciated.

Answer 1

I faced the same problem. The solution evaded me a lot of time, but what I discovered was that I had:
- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType {
NSLog(#"shouldStartLoadWithRequest Loading: %#", [request URL]);
}
and I did not return any thing from this. When I changed it to
- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType {
NSLog(#"shouldStartLoadWithRequest Loading: %#", [request URL]);
return TRUE;
}
it works. Simulator does not care if you returned a BOOL or not, but the actual device, it does not work.

Answer 2

First check your connectivity. Are you able to access both URLs (about and PHP page) from Safari on the device?
Then I suggest you stick some error handling code in your UIWebViewDelegate. So something like :
- (void)webView:(UIWebView *)webView didFailLoadWithError:(NSError *)error
{
// load error, hide the activity indicator in the status bar
[UIApplication sharedApplication].networkActivityIndicatorVisible = NO;
if ([error code] == NSURLErrorCancelled) {
// don't show the error
// if you want to know why I ignore these errors
// check out this question:
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1577670
return;
}
[webView loadHTMLString:[[[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:#"Failed to load page %# %08d", [error localizedDescription, [error code]]] autorelease] baseURL:nil];
}
Let us know how you go.