My app sends the user to Safari to open a URL with this:
UIApplication.shared.open(url)
This works fine with urls I've obtained from TMDB but when I get podcast URLs from queries to http://itunes.apple.com/search?media=podcast&lang=en_us&term=1468013270 I take the collectionViewUrl field from the JSON response and try to send the user there. In the iOS Simulator I get that Safari error message. If I cut and paste the CollectionViewUrl into an actual Safari tab I go to the web page. And if I test this on my actual iPhone I get sent to the podcast app where this show is pulled up. I'm just wondering why the simulator gives this response?
Did you tried to disable "Block all Cookies" feature on the safari settings?
it worked for me
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I have an app that relies on deep linking using a custom scheme ://appName for some user email verification. The way it currently works is:
User enters email in app and hits send
Email is sent to user, user taps on "activate" button
Button opens valid website url which then redirects to deep link url, i.e ://appName/auth/tokenId
All was good, and this worked flawlessly on iOS 9 devices, but iOS 10 seemed to break it.
After further investigation:
appName://id=123 opens in iOS9, but in iOS10 safari displays that “the url can’t be shown” for the exact same URL.
They will both work however for the URL scheme alone (appName://)
You can even test this on your devices/simulator to see. Perhaps the change is in safari?
More investigation:
Almost sure its related to Safari.
Any ideas on how to resolve this?
Eventually tracked down this issue and got a response from the CEO of Branch. He said:
Ah interesting find! I just tested a few ways and it seems to reject
typed-in URI schemes with a deep link host & path, but you can still
trigger them in JS and click them on page. You just can't type it in
for some reason.
So beware of this if you are using deep linking in such a way on iOS 10!
I personally ended up just giving the direct deep link URL in the email, rather than embedding a redirect in a nice button. Something like this appName://gotoHere/here
We have an App that accepts donations and per Apple's guidelines (item 21.2) we can't do this in-app, it must open a webpage in Safari to perform the donation. We've got that bit working fine, and we can actually automatically invoke the App post donation and put the user right back where they left off. The trouble is that the Tab in Safari persists when the user returns to Safari later.
Is there a way to open an app from a webpage while simultaneously closing said webpage in Safari?
So apparently the way to do it is via Javascript. You can set the window location and then immediately close the window.
e.g.
window.location = "myapp://?stuff";
window.close;
We are having an issue on our network with iOS devices (ipads, iphones etc): After connecting to the SSID, the iphone / ipad immediately opens the Captive Network Assistant (CNA) - it is like a scaled-down browser without navigation buttons etc - that displays our welcome page (ready for the user to authenticate his MAC in the network to give him internet). This CNA is a functin of iOS, and happens automatically.
I was looking around on this forum how to make the user open his Safari browser by clicking a link (while in the CNA), thus sending him away from the CNA and into Safari (which is where I would prefer him to be).
I searched phrases such as: "How to set a link to open in safari", but I get results about people using phonegap to do such a thing...
One user talked about using
window.open(myURL, '_system')
but I don't know if that is solving my issue.
Basically my plan is to:
- Have my Welcome Page (the page displayed after the user connected to my SSID) detect what type of browser the user's device has. My Welcome Page is hosted at a site which is in the Walled Garden of my controller, so every device can see that Welcome page (whether they have full internet access or not).
- If the user has an iOS device, the CNA browser opens automatically. My controller detects the device has a CNA browser and loads a simple page with the message (like): "click here to start to navigate"
- During the next few seconds (while the user is digesting the message), my controller gives the user's MAC full internet access
- When the user clicks that link in the CNA browser, the CNA closes and then opens Safari, and also forces Safari to open the destination Welcome Page (where I want my user to be, depending on the antenna to which he connected).
I really hope that all makes sense...
I found this link about the CNA browser in this forum:
Bypasses Apple Captive Network Assistant Login in iOS 7
But it talks having the user open Safari right from the start (disabling the CNA function), "hoping" that the user opens Safari (rather then going directly to one of his apps). I prefer that the user has to "click to continue", which makes Safari open and he sees my Welcome Page.
EDIT : this solution doesn't work after iOS 10.3. Not sure if that's a feature or a bug : https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/75498
EDIT2 : Apparently it works again on iOS 11
There is a simple way to do that, if you have control over the captive portal server.
When connecting to a wifi network, iOS devices send a GET request to a bunch of predefined urls (http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html, ...) , to see if there is Internet connectivity (wispr requests). The iOS device expects the answer <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Success</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>Success</BODY></HTML>. If the request succeeds, but the answer is different (for example your captive portal page), it triggers the CNA to open.
At this stage, the CNA thinks you are not connected and will show a Cancel button at the top. Every link will open inside the CNA and not in a Safari window, no matter what you do. The CNA is done so that you can get your user through the log-in process. In order to see if the log-in process is done and connection is finally established, the iOS device will now and then send another wispr request. This happens every 40 seconds, or whenever an HTTP request is emitted (navigation within the CNA).
When your server finally answers Success to a wispr request, the CNA will mark as connected, the button at the top will change into Done. At this stage, any link to an external url will close the CNA and open in Safari :)
So to summarize, you can achieve what you want with the following connection steps :
server answers initial wispr request with your CNA page.
the page opens in CNA. In that page, have some JavaScript that immediately triggers navigation within the CNA, for example : <script>window.location.reload(true)</script> this will trigger the iOS device to immediately send another wispr request
server answers this second wispr request with <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Success</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>Success</BODY></HTML>, this will trigger the CNA to mark as connected
have your CNA page to show a link to an external url
Extracted from an answer by Ryan at How can I open an external link in Safari not the app's UIWebView?
To have a specific link switch to Safari, simply add target="_system" to the link, as in
Link Text
Or to catch all links in your javascript that have target="_blank", include jQuery and pass them to window.open with the '_system' param. This will work on both iOS and Android.
$(document).on('click', 'a[target="_blank"]', function(ev) {
var url;
ev.preventDefault();
url = $(this).attr('href');
window.open(url, '_system');
});
Javascript does NOT work fully in CNA, it is disabled for security reason.
target="_system" is a safari feature, not a CNA one.
==> briefly, _system fails in CNA.
The main task I'm trying to achieve is to open my app with a URL.
Adding the custom URL scheme to the appName-Info.plist everything works fine using the corresponding handleOpenUrl: etc etc.
My point is that my app has got a webSite as well. So what I'm trying to do is, given an url to my users (tiny, short url doesn't matter) combine together these 3 different cases:
If the user opens the URL from his iPhone and he's got the app installed: open the iPhone app;
If the user opens the URL from his iPhone and he hasn't got the app installed: open the iTunes store URL of the app;
If the user open the the URL from his phone (android, tablet, etc) , or from the web, show the web page instead.
My problem is that I can achieve all these tasks separately but I cannot combine all together.
Note: tried to add the http://myApp.com to the UrlScheme but of course didn't work coz the http:// is managed by Safari in the iPhone.
Any idea? Help and suggestions would be really appreciated. Tks a lot chaps.
This SO question seems to have the answer you're looking for:
Check if the user-agent is that of an iPhone/iPod Touch
Check for an appInstalled cookie
If the cookie exists and is set to true, set window.location to your-uri:// (or do the redirect server side)
If the cookie doesn't exist, open a "Did you know Your Site Name has an iPhone application?" modal with a "Yep, I've already got it", "Nope, but I'd love to try it", and "Leave me alone" button.
The "Yep" button sets the cookie to true and redirects to your-uri://
The "Nope" button redirects to "http://itunes.com/apps/yourappname" which will open the App Store on the device
The "Leave me alone" button sets the cookie to false and closes the modal
The other option I've played with but found a little clunky was to do the following in Javascript:
This would solve one of your problems, it will link the user to the app page:
itms-apps://itunes.com/apps/APPNAME
I'm not a heavy coder here, so i'll ask my best.
We made a brochure about our home town. However users spreading it trough facebook cant open the links when in their facebook app. The app does not send it to safari either. If opened directly from safari it is no problem.
The link is http://visit.lodingen360.com
Is there anything i can do to the site/index.html/whatever that will make it open in safari when the link is clicked in the facebook app for ios? (that won't affect visiting the site from pc's and so on)
Is there anything uiwebview won't read that can force it to safari, so that we can redirect from the thing opened in safari to the site?
Your page will load and display in Mobile Safari, I tried with UIWebView and it will load without displaying an error, but the brouchure page content won't display.
Safari and UIWebView have different user agent's - therefore my guess is that because your site uses flash but it checking for the type of browser you are not performing the check correctly for UIWebView and the page is attempting to use flash which isn't supported.