I have a HTML file which contains local resource files such as css, js and png files inside its content. These local resource files are in zip format. My app use WKWebView to display this html file. I want to find a solution to intercept the web view request to detect which local resource files are load together with this html file -> then unzip them if they are still zip format.
My HTML data content contains thousands of these local resource file so I can't unzip all of them before display content. With UIWebView, we are using NSURLProtocol subclass to intercept the request, detect local resource files and un-zip it on demand based on the html page which user is viewing.
I am having this issue when convert UIWebView to WKWebView. Similar problem was post here: https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/87474
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I figured it out by using WKURLSchemeHandler.
Note: You need to change the file scheme to a custom scheme in order to use WKURLSchemeHandler because it will not work with standard schemes like file, http, https.
1. Register custom scheme with WKWebView
let configuration = WKWebViewConfiguration()
configuration.setURLSchemeHandler(self, forURLScheme: "x-file")
webView = WKWebView(frame: view.bounds, configuration: configuration)
2. Convert file scheme to the custom scheme (x-file) then load it with WKWebView
let htmlPath = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "index", ofType: "html")
var htmlURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: htmlPath!, isDirectory: false)
htmlURL = self.changeURLScheme(newScheme: "x-file", forURL: htmlURL)
self.webView.load(URLRequest(url: htmlURL))
3. Implement 2 methods of WKURLSchemeHandler protocol and handle 3 delegate methods of WKURLSchemeTask.
func webView(_ webView: WKWebView, start urlSchemeTask: WKURLSchemeTask) {
print("Function: \(#function), line: \(#line)")
print("==> \(urlSchemeTask.request.url?.absoluteString ?? "")\n")
// Your local resource files will be catch here. You can determine it by checking the urlSchemeTask.request.url.
// From here I will unzip local resource files (js, css, png,...) if they are still in zip format
....
// Handle WKURLSchemeTask delegate methods
let url = changeURLScheme(newScheme: "file", forURL: urlSchemeTask.request.url!)
do {
let data = try Data(contentsOf: url)
urlSchemeTask.didReceive(URLResponse(url: urlSchemeTask.request.url!, mimeType: "text/html", expectedContentLength: data.count, textEncodingName: nil))
urlSchemeTask.didReceive(data)
urlSchemeTask.didFinish()
} catch {
print("Unexpected error when get data from URL: \(url)")
}
}
func webView(_ webView: WKWebView, stop urlSchemeTask: WKURLSchemeTask) {
print("Function: \(#function), line: \(#line)")
print("==> \(urlSchemeTask.request.url?.absoluteString ?? "")\n")
}