iOS Question webview will not load a url stored in a variable.

[ottercat]

In android I have no problem. In ios if I have a link stored in say aLink and put webview.loadurl(aLink) it does nothing and a log statement after it does not fire. If I put in "a website" instead, it loads fine.

 

[MarcoRome]

The link is http or https ? Document or what ?
Pls more information

 

[ottercat]

If you put a link like http://www.yahoo.com in a variable and then try to load the variable it won't work.
If you put the link in quotes, not in a variable it loads.

 

[roumei]

I don't think that there is a difference between a variable and directly putting the URL in quotes (but there are some problems with LoadURL in iOS < 14).
I tested it on iOS 14.6 and I get the same behavior for both variants.
Could you try it with https? Most webpages need some kind of consent and http doesn't work very well for that.

 

[MarcoRome]

If you put a link like http://www.yahoo.com in a variable and then try to load the variable it won't work.
If you put the link in quotes, not in a variable it loads.

Why do you use yahoo with out "https" ?
Anyway when you use http is important add:

#ATSEnabled: True

'If you want to show non-secure pages in WebView and allow the user to navigate to other domains as well:
#PlistExtra: <key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key><dict><key>NSAllowsArbitraryLoads</key><true/>
#PlistExtra: <key>NSAllowsArbitraryLoadsInWebContent</key><true/>
#PlistExtra: </dict>

Look:

ATS - App Transport Security

ATS is a security feature that prevents applications to make non-ssl http connections. This means that when ATS is enabled applications can only access https urls. Starting from 1/1/2017, ATS must be enabled on new or updated applications. Apple has postponed this requirement. New projects...

www.b4x.com

 

[Erel]

I don't think that there is a difference between a variable and directly putting the URL in quotes

This is the correct answer.
If you see a difference then the variable value is not what you expect. Maybe there is an extra space or any other invisible character.