I'm loading a local HTML file into a UIWebView when my application starts. The file contains links (absolute URLs) to external sites. The local file loads in the UIWebView in the iPad simulator without any issues. However, when I click on any of the external links, the pages won't load. I only see the progress indicator.
These same absolute URLs will open when used with a call to [webview loadRequest...] when the application starts. And all links on those pages open properly in the UIWebView as well. For example, I can start with http://www.google.com, perform a search, and go to any of the pages in the results.
So a couple of questions:
Why this difference in behavior between links on an HTML page loaded locally and one loaded from an external web site?
How do I get the UIWebView to open links to external sites that are on an HTML page that was initially loaded locally?
Thanks
