UIApplication sharedapplication openURL not working

Question

I have this method

- (IBAction)facebookButtonPress:(id)sender {
    NSLog(@"fb hit");
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:[@"www.facebook.com/asbreckenridge" stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]]];
}

and I don't understand why safari doesnt open the link. I get the 'fb hit' logged, so the method is being called, but it doesnt open the link in Safari, what am I doing wrong?

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 17 '19 at 20:27

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Try it without the encoding like this.

- (IBAction)facebookButtonPress:(id)sender {
    NSLog(@"fb hit");
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"www.facebook.com/asbreckenridge"]];
}

Also try changing the URL to http://www.facebook.com/asbreckenridge

edited Apr 17 '19 at 20:27

neowinston

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answered Apr 14 '14 at 19:37

Khawar Ali

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It is kind of strange, their seems to be no problem with the code – Khawar Ali Apr 14 '14 at 19:42
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[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"www.facebook.com/asbreckenridge" ]]; Not working – SBM Feb 16 '16 at 09:35
Have you found any solution for opening www.facebook.com – AJ Sanjay Feb 05 '20 at 07:33

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 14 '14 at 19:42

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Try this:

- (IBAction)facebookButtonPress:(id)sender {
NSLog(@"fb hit");
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.facebook.com/asbreckenridge"]];
}

answered Apr 14 '14 at 19:42

Hermann Klecker

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Awesome, I dont know what was wrong but it's working now – AndrewSB Apr 14 '14 at 19:56
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The `http://` was missing. In general the additional brackets with the encoding is not a bad thing to do. But in case of this constant URL it does not have any effect. – Hermann Klecker Apr 14 '14 at 21:20

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 03 '17 at 03:05

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In my case problem was in extra "/" at the end.

doesn't work:
@"http://www.facebook.com/asbreckenridge/"

works fine:
@"http://www.facebook.com/asbreckenridge"

edited Mar 03 '17 at 03:05

pkamb

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answered Oct 27 '16 at 14:48

Igor

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UIApplication sharedapplication openURL not working

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