Passing parameters in url path to webview

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#1

Hi Community,

I found a issue with webView when loading local html file with parameters on Android.

It perfectly loads webpage.
webView:request( “test.html”, system.ResourceDirectory )

When I tried to load it this way
webView:request( “test.html?someVeriable=value”, system.ResourceDirectory )

It say “webpage is not available” screenshot attached.

Is it a bug?

My Corona build is 2015.2646

Regards,
Usman Mughal

 

#2

I suspect the problem is that to use ?key=value type syntax requires a web server to process those parameters and pass them to a script. When you load local HTML there is no server to handle it, it’s just reading a flat file and a file with that name doesn’t exist (“test.html?someVeriable=value”)

#3

Thanks Rob for reply.

It’s a strange thing that It’s working fine in case of iOS and I have come to know that it is worked as expected for some Android too. Same like a web server it process the parameters and passes to the scripts of file.

Here is another question about the parameters. Can I get some other way to pass parameters to file in case of Android?

Regards,
Usman Mughal

#4

iOS and Android are different, it’s not reasonable to expect OS level things to behave the same between the two.

Now if you say this worked in a previous version of Corona SDK on Android, then there might be a regression bug, but we would need to know the last version it worked in and a test case to show that it doesn’t work any longer.

Rob

#5

I suspect the problem is that to use ?key=value type syntax requires a web server to process those parameters and pass them to a script. When you load local HTML there is no server to handle it, it’s just reading a flat file and a file with that name doesn’t exist (“test.html?someVeriable=value”)

#6

Thanks Rob for reply.

It’s a strange thing that It’s working fine in case of iOS and I have come to know that it is worked as expected for some Android too. Same like a web server it process the parameters and passes to the scripts of file.

Here is another question about the parameters. Can I get some other way to pass parameters to file in case of Android?

Regards,
Usman Mughal

#7

iOS and Android are different, it’s not reasonable to expect OS level things to behave the same between the two.

Now if you say this worked in a previous version of Corona SDK on Android, then there might be a regression bug, but we would need to know the last version it worked in and a test case to show that it doesn’t work any longer.

Rob