Need help grabbing the URL of a clicked link inside a UIWebView

[darylbowden]

Hi All,

Sorry to bother with this, but I have searched all over and I have tried everything I can think of (which admittedly may not be that great an endorsement) and I cannot find an answer.

Basically, I have a UIWebView and what I'm trying to do is detect if the link being clicked inside the active web page (in my webview) is an image. So, to that end I have implemented the following method:

- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView*)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest*)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType {
	
	//CAPTURE USER LINK-CLICK.
	if (navigationType == UIWebViewNavigationTypeLinkClicked) {
		NSURL *URL = [request URL];	
		NSLog(@"url is: %s ", URL);
	}	
	return YES;   
}

WHat I get from the above code is: @fiA (base64?)

I've tried all manner of different encoding methods, but nothing gives me any different response than that.

All I need to get is the url so that I can do a substring search and see if it contains .jpg, .gif, .png, etc and handle it properly if it contains one of those.

Any help would be MUCH appreciated...

[smasher]

The format specifier %s is only for C strings. If you want to see the description of an object, use %@ instead.

[darylbowden]

Awesome! God I'm slow...

So, one more thing. I'm sure this exists, but I haven't found it yet. Is there an instance method in NSString that will allow me to convert that NSURL into a readable string that I can compare against?

[smasher]

Yes, every object has a "description" method that returns a string; by default it just gives the address, but most classes override it to give you a notion of the contents as well.

In short, you could compare [URL description] to whatever string you want.

[darylbowden]

Thanks so much Smasher, this is exactly what I was missing!