Webview - how to detect redirecting URLs

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I have a question on the Android webview.

Assume URL A redirects to URL B at the server side.

My android application when it tries to open URL A in webview, it automatically redirects to URL B.

If a URL is being redirected to some other url, I see both these urls are stored in webview history. Now my webview history consists of [URL x, URL y, .... URL A, URL B ]

On back key click from URL B webpage, webview will try to load URL A, which again redirects to URL B. We need to double click back key twice rapidly, to go back beyond URL A

How do I solve this issue ? Is there a way to tell webview, not to put redirecting URLs in history or any other options ?

Thanks.

Saad Farooq · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-21 14:51:44Z

I'm not an expert but if you know the basic URL information of the sites you wish to ignore, maybe you can look into the doUpdateVisitedHistory method for the WebViewClient. You might be able to do something like:

@Override public void doUpdateVisitedHistory(WebView view, String url, boolean isReload) { if ( url.contains("you.site") ) // do nothing else super.doUpdateVisitedHistory(view, url, isReload); }

default implementation of doUpdateVisitedHistory() is empty

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