Android WebView - get url redirected to, without loading the page in the webview

Question

I am trying to access a.com, which in turn redirects me to b.com and loads it in the webview.

How do I just get the address that a.com redirects to without loading anything in the webview?

String postData = "session=" + session; webView.postUrl(urlPassedFromArguments, EncodingUtils.getBytes(postData, "base64")); webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() { @Override public void onReceivedError(WebView view, int errorCode, String description, String failingUrl) { if (isAdded() && getActivity() != null) Toast.makeText(getActivity(), description, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); } @Override public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) { try { dialog.dismiss(); } catch (Exception e) { } super.onPageFinished(view, url); Logger.e("onPageFinished url", url); if (!resolvedUrlLoaded) { String postData = "token=" + token; webView.postUrl(url, EncodingUtils.getBytes(postData, "base64")); resolvedUrlLoaded = true; } } });

shkschneider · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-15 09:11:47Z

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Use shouldOverrideUrlLoading:

@Override public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading (WebView view, String url) { // url to be loaded return true|false; }

Returns True if the host application wants to leave the current WebView and handle the url itself, otherwise return false.

answered Jun 15, 2015 at 9:11

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Kaloyan Roussev Over a year ago

how can I obtain the redirect-to url using this?

shkschneider Over a year ago

This method gets called everytime before an URL will be loaded. So I guess you got all URLs there, including the redirect-to one. What's it your question?

Kaloyan Roussev Over a year ago

also, I read in the documentation that "This method is not called for requests using the POST "method"." - what does that mean? Should I NOT call it when using POST (I am using POST) or it will not be called when I am using POST

shkschneider Over a year ago

It won't be called when using POST, just you can still override it.

shkschneider Over a year ago

You can do a request with HttpURLConnection, check httpURLConnection.getResponseCode() for "301 Redirect" and use httpURLConnection.getHeaderField("Location") to get the redirection URL for example.

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