Detecting Download in UIWebView

Question

I have a programatically crated UIWebView, and it is used to browse a iPhone-style site stored on my server. In this website, there are a few links to files use

Answer 1

----------Swift 4+-------

Example for audio/mp3 detect -

Step 1: Use delegate

class ViewController : WKUIDelegate,WKNavigationDelegate {

Step 2: Setting WebKit

 func setWebView() {
        let webConfiguration = WKWebViewConfiguration()
        webView = WKWebView(frame: .zero, configuration: webConfiguration)
        webView.uiDelegate = self
        webView.navigationDelegate = self
        view = webView

        let myURL = URL(string: "https://www.bossmobi.guru/files/download/type/320/id/197255")//your audio url
        let myRequest = URLRequest(url: myURL!)
        webView.load(myRequest)
    }

Step 3: Get audio MIME type from webkit delegate.

 func webView(_ webView: WKWebView, decidePolicyFor navigationResponse: WKNavigationResponse, decisionHandler: @escaping (WKNavigationResponsePolicy) -> Void) {
        print( #function + "url is \(String(describing: webView.url))"  + "Mimetype" + "\(navigationResponse.response.mimeType ?? "NotAvailable")")
        if let _ = navigationResponse.response.mimeType?.range(of: "audio/mpeg") {
            print("MP3 is audio url \(String(describing: webView.url))")
            webView.stopLoading()
        }
        decisionHandler(.allow)
    }

---------ObjC----------

WKWebView setup

  NSString *urlString = @"https://www.bossmobi.guru/files/download/type/320/id/197255";

    WKWebViewConfiguration *theConfiguration = [[WKWebViewConfiguration alloc] init];
    WKWebView *_demoWKWebView = [[WKWebView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.frame configuration:theConfiguration];
    _demoWKWebView.navigationDelegate = self;
    _demoWKWebView.UIDelegate = self;
    NSURL *nsurl=[NSURL URLWithString:urlString];
    NSURLRequest *nsrequest=[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:nsurl];
    [_demoWKWebView loadRequest:nsrequest];
    [self.view addSubview:_demoWKWebView];

WKWebView delegate

-(void)webView:(WKWebView *)webView decidePolicyForNavigationResponse:(WKNavigationResponse *)navigationResponse decisionHandler:(void (^)(WKNavigationResponsePolicy))decisionHandler {
    //NSLog(@"decidePolicyForNavigation---Response  %@",webView.URL);
    if ([navigationResponse.response.MIMEType isEqualToString:@"audio/mpeg"]) {
        NSLog(@"MP3  audio url is %@",webView.URL);
    }
    decisionHandler(WKNavigationResponsePolicyAllow);
}

Answer 2

You're trying to detect a Content-Type from an NSURLRequest which has not yet been made. You won't know the Content-Type until after the request is made using NSURLConnection. In this case, I'd probably just look at the file extension of the URL path.

Answer 3

So here's the problem: UIWebView doesn't download anything it can't display, and it doesn't know how to display a ZIP file. It will always fail before the Content-Type is filled in.

So, what to do? I don't know if your server-side app runs on more than the iPhone, but you could register a custom URL scheme with links like myapplication://example.com/stuff/yourhexurlgoeshere. You can create a custom URL handler for the myapplication scheme. A couple of seconds of Googling produced this site, which explains how to do it.

This has an additional benefit because if you, say, emailed such a link to another user, they could tap on it in Mail and have it open in your application.