WebView says "Object moved" when a page redirects

[Oliver Bosse]

there are often redirects on server and on client side of web sites.
very common example : http to https or redirects of ad banner links.
when this happens the webview shows a white page that says "Object moved".
how can i avoid that?

oliver

 

[Erel]

Are you sure that it is not displayed by the Url you are targeting?
Can you post this Url?

 

[Oliver Bosse]

http://www.oliverbosse.com

call this website from your device and go to "Mobile apps" section.

use a webbrowser and the download links to android market work fine.

use webview inside an app and they don't because of the (maybe serverside) redirecting.

what can i do to avoid that ... or better make it work?

 

[Erel]

This is what I get from the following code:

   Dim wv As WebView
   wv.Initialize("wv")
   Activity.AddView(wv, 0, 0, 100%x, 100%y)
   wv.LoadUrl("http://www.oliverbosse.com/")

 

[Oliver Bosse]

at this point everything is ok.
but now go to "Mobile apps" and click on one of the app icons there.
they link to google marketplace.
none of them works for me.

 

[NJDude]

I don't have any problem, I can click on any app icon, go to the market and click on INSTALL, no issues. I'm doing this using a webview, just like the example Erel mentioned above.

 

[Oliver Bosse]

thanks for response.
hmm, that is strange.
can it be that it is my old htc hero with webkit 3.1?

 

[Oliver Bosse]

i know now where the problem is.
it's on the serverside, not on the client.

some browsers have the "too many redirects" issue

it can occur when a page is redirecting to a different site and that site again
is redirecting back to the original request url.

many ad networks do banner linking in that way.
it's often for analytics reasons and because they just act as a mediation service.

 

[Oliver Bosse]

...by the way....this is how it looks like....