WebViewClient.shouldOverrideUrlLoading giving invalid url

Question

I'm setting WebView's content as;

String displayBodyText = "<a href="scheme:/user_abd/data?q=from%3A%22ammar%40mydomain.com%22#title=%40Ammar%20">Ammar</a>"
webView.loadData(displayBodyText , "text/html", "utf-8");

And set the WebViewClient as;

linkDetailWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
                        @Override
                        public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
                            Log.d("TAG", url);
                            return true;
                        }
                    });

When clicked on the link in data, I'm getting scheme:/user_abd/data?q=from: instead of scheme:/user_abd/data?q=from%3A%22ammar%40mydomain.com%22#title=%40Ammar%20.

I'n unable to get this behavior of WebView.

score 1 · Answer 1 · 2015-04-08T08:41:04.457

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Try this code I checked it works for me

String displayBodyText = "<a href=\"scheme:/user_abd/data?q=from:&#34;ammar@mydomain.com&#34;#title=@Ammar\">Ammar</a>";
web_view.loadData(displayBodyText , "text/html", "utf-8");

Webview client

web_view.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
        @Override
        public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
            String m_url = URLDecoder.decode(url);
            Log.e("TAG",m_url);

            return true;
        }
});

edited Apr 08 '15 at 08:41

answered Apr 08 '15 at 06:53

Not working. In this case the url returned is `scheme:/user_abd/data?q=from:/`. There seems some issue with `%22`. – Ammar Apr 08 '15 at 07:33
Now it's returning scheme:/user_abd/data?q==from:\\ – Ammar Apr 08 '15 at 08:20
Worked for me too, Thanks! – KaKa May 18 '16 at 02:47

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

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You have to escape your invalid characters from your string:

String displayBodyText = "<a href=\"scheme:/user_abd/data?q=from%3A%22ammar%40mydomain.com%22#title=%40Ammar%20\">Ammar</a>";

You can't have double quotes in a string without escaping them: Escape double quotes in Java

edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

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answered Apr 08 '15 at 06:37

Lars Nielsen

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What are invalid characters in this string? Double quotes are already encoded with '%22'. – Ammar Apr 08 '15 at 06:41
The invalid double quotes are on the href attribute: `href="..."`. Compare your string with mine, and you'll see. – Lars Nielsen Apr 08 '15 at 06:45
Oh yes. But this is typo here. Actually my string is escaped. – Ammar Apr 08 '15 at 06:46

WebViewClient.shouldOverrideUrlLoading giving invalid url

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