Know what UIViewController make request

Question

I have my URLProtocol implementation class. In my app I have there is more than one UIViewController that can do http requests (there is only one visible, but more actives). There is a way to know what instance of viewcontroller (in my URLProtocol implementation) is making the request?

You better to use blocks, to receive callback from your requests, not delegate. — Mr.Fingers, Oct 24 '16 at 09:02
Why not cut & paste some code that describes how you are generating your http requests and how you are implementing URLProtocol? — Michael Dautermann, Oct 24 '16 at 09:03
The requests are made by a webview, for requests that I write there is no problem of course, because I know all of those. — Pol, Oct 24 '16 at 09:07

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

Set your view controller to be a delegate of your UIWebView (if you haven't done it already), then you can do something like this:

- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType
{
    NSLog(@"url %@", [[request URL] absoluteString]);

    // now you know which view controller made this request
    //
    // you could save this to a property in the view controller
    // or to a table of view controllers/web views 

    return YES;
}

I'm basing my answer on what I found in this very related question.

Know what UIViewController make request

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