iOS Detect downloads in UIWebView

[nomar383]

Safari on the iPad is able to detect downloads and give you a warning if it doesn't understand how to handle them. How do I detect downloads in a similar manner for my iPad app?

I've been searching google for hours with no luck 🙁

My app needs to detect downloads that are generated and returned through scripts (php, javascript, etc) and then handle them. When I click a link in my UIWebView that functions in this manner, I get this error:
Error Domain=WebKitErrorDomain Code=102 UserInfo=0x514af70 "Frame load interrupted"

In Safari, I get a warning (via a UIAlert). So, I'm assuming Safari has some way to handle this and KNOWS that it's a download. Ideas?

 

[firewood]

Look in the UIWebview documentation for the webView:shouldStartLoadWithRequest:navigationType: method. You can inspect every URL before any network load starts, and reject the ones you don't want.

 

[nomar383]

I tried using that method already, and I'm checking the "request" for what the URL is. The URLs that are being returned don't seem useful (no extension of any kind). So, I am unable to use something like NSData to download from the URL.