iOS xcode Alternative to UIWebview didFinishLoad - ios

I have a webview that when loaded, the user is logged in by a POST request. After they are logged in, I want them to be taken to a webpage. My POST request is a URL as follows:
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
[_scoreWebView setDelegate:self];
NSMutableURLRequest *detailRequest = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] initWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:#"myrul"]];
[detailRequest setHTTPMethod:#"POST"];
NSString *sendInfo =[NSString stringWithFormat:#"action=login&EMAIL=email&PASSWORD=password", nil];
NSData *infoData = [sendInfo dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
[detailRequest setHTTPBody:infoData];
[_scoreWebView loadRequest:detailRequest];
}
This log in process works fine. However, after I send the user to my webpage it is launching webviewdidfinishload infinitely. I know that it fires each time something is loaded. Is there an alternate solution to redirecting the user to my page after log in? Also, I have three different pages that the user could be redirected to based on their input, this is just one of them for simplicity. This is my finishload method:
- (void)webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)webView
{
//Check here if still webview is loding the content
if (webView.isLoading)
return;
else //finished
NSLog(#"finished loading");
NSLog(#"%# in calendar", _thisScriptUniqueID);
NSString *fullURL=[NSString stringWithFormat:#"myurl/%##score", _thisScriptUniqueID];
NSLog(#"%#", fullURL);
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:fullURL];
NSURLRequest *requestObj = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
[_scoreWebView loadRequest:requestObj];
}
Is there a different method that could be used to take the user to the page, or would it be possible to include both in the viewDidLoad?

After a lot of research, I decided that the functionality would work a lot better on the server side. I made it so that the same URL logs the user in and brings them to the desired page at the same time.

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{
[super viewDidLoad];
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[super viewDidLoad];
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_webView = [[UIWebView alloc]initWithFrame:screen];
_webView.delegate = self;
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You can start the requests in this method:
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/uikit/reference/uiapplicationdelegate_protocol/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/occ/intfm/UIApplicationDelegate/application:willFinishLaunchingWithOptions:
This is first place in application when You can execute a code just after launching is finished. You will save some time (little I suppose - this looks like a simple app).
I think that better solution is to cache the downloaded website data. In this case You will download the data first time You enter the app and the second time You will display downloaded content. In the background You will check if website has changed. If so You update the content.

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Some code:
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I'm an iOS newb (.NET professional), so this may be a simple issue but I couldn't find anything through the SO search or Google (and maybe not looking for the right terms).
I'm writing an app that displays information from a DD-WRT router through it's web interface. I have no problem displaying the initial page and navigating through any of the other pages, but if I make any change on a form (and it redirects to apply.cgi or applyuser.cgi), the UIWebView is blank - it's supposed to display the same page, with the form submission changes. The site works fine in Mobile Safari, which I find intriguing, but I guess UIWebView isn't totally the same.
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}
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