wknavigationdelegate - Get the current full URL for WKWebView

Question

Is there a way to get the FULL URL loaded by a WKWebView for every request?

webView:didFinishNavigation:

Works only for mainFrame navigations and does not provide a URL request parameter.

How do I get the FULL URL just like in UIWebViewDelegate's

webViewDidFinishLoad:webView

...which gets invoked after any loading finishes and you can get the full request URL from the webView parameter.

It's nice that WKWebView's URL property saves the work that needs to be done to extract a UI-friendly base URL, but it's a huge loss we can't get the full one!

I have tried using

webView:decidePolicyForNavigationAction:decisionHandler:

...but it produces different results for URLs compared to what a UIWebView's request property holds after finishing the load of a page.

Answer 1

You can get URL for a newly requested Webpage by "navigationAction.request.URL" in decidePolicyForNavigationAction delegate method.

func webView(webView: WKWebView, decidePolicyForNavigationAction navigationAction: WKNavigationAction, decisionHandler: (WKNavigationActionPolicy) -> Void) {
   if let urlStr = navigationAction.request.URL?.absoluteString{
      //urlStr is what you want, I guess.
   }
   decisionHandler(.Allow)
}