webViewDidFinishLoad called multiple times for single loadrequest - ios

Question

I have been using webView delegate successfully from long time. But recently I faced strange issue with this delegate. In my current project I am trying to access my router from webview. I am passing username and password inside URL only. Below is load request code.
[self.webView loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:#"http://uname:password#192.168.1.1"]]];
This calls webView delegate method (webViewDidFinishLoad and webViewDidStartLoad) 5 times. Is it expected? When I pass simple URL like google.com it works as expected. But with username and password why these delegate methods are called 5 times?
If this behaviour is correct then I need to know why it calls 5 times only. The reason is, in my program - I am calling performSegueWithIdentifier in webViewDidFinishLoad method and in present form it calls segue 5 times. For workaround I can maintain count and will call performSegueWithIdentifier on 5th count only.
Thanks

Answer 1

webViewDidStartLoad/webViewDidFinishLoad are called once per HTML frame. Your content likely has multiple frames in it.
See UIWebViewDelegate docs.
webViewDidStartLoad:
Sent after a web view starts loading a frame.

Answer 2

This Methods works for me... :)
#pragma mark UI Web View Delegate
NSInteger webViewLoads;
//a web view starts loading
- (void)webViewDidStartLoad:(UIWebView *)webView{
webViewLoads++;
[UIApplication sharedApplication].networkActivityIndicatorVisible = YES;
[SVProgressHUD showWithStatus:#"Loading..." maskType:SVProgressHUDMaskTypeBlack];
}
//web view finishes loading
- (void)webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)webView{
webViewLoads--;
[self performSelector:#selector(webViewFinishLoadWithCondition) withObject:nil afterDelay:0.5];
}
//web view handling error
- (void)webView:(UIWebView *)webView didFailLoadWithError:(NSError *)error{
webViewLoads--;
NSLog(#"Web View Did Fail Load With Error : %#",error);
[UIApplication sharedApplication].networkActivityIndicatorVisible = NO;
[SVProgressHUD dismiss];
}
-(void)webViewFinishLoadWithCondition{
if(webViewLoads==0){
[UIApplication sharedApplication].networkActivityIndicatorVisible = NO;
[SVProgressHUD dismiss];
}
}

Answer 3

As webViewDidStartLoad/webViewDidFinishLoad are called once per HTML frame, Use an integer to find when the last frame load is finished,
In detail :
Increment the integer in webViewDidStartLoad
Decrement the integer in webViewDidFinishLoad
In webViewDidFinishLoad check when integer is zero, Which means all the frames of web page are loaded, Now call the selector
This is an explanation of #marvin's answer
Best approach:
Check for isLoading in webViewDidFinishLoad and isLoading is false, do what ever u want
-(void)webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)webview
{
if (!webview.isLoading)
{
// webview is done loading content.
// `performSegueWithIdentifier` / Your code Here
}
}