How do I get the web page contents from a WebView?

Question

On Android, I have a WebView that is displaying a page.

How do I get the page source without requesting the page again?

It seems WebView

Answer 1

Have you considered fetching the HTML separately, and then loading it into a webview?

String fetchContent(WebView view, String url) throws IOException {
    HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
    HttpGet get = new HttpGet(url);
    HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(get);
    StatusLine statusLine = response.getStatusLine();
    int statusCode = statusLine.getStatusCode();
    HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
    String html = EntityUtils.toString(entity); // assume html for simplicity
    view.loadDataWithBaseURL(url, html, "text/html", "utf-8", url); // todo: get mime, charset from entity
    if (statusCode != 200) {
        // handle fail
    }
    return html;
}