How to handle app URLs in a UIWebView?

Here’s what I came up with. In webView:shouldStartLoadWithRequest:navigationType:, I ask the OS to handle any non-http and non-https requests that it can, like so:

- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)wv shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType {

    // Determine if we want the system to handle it.
    NSURL *url = request.URL;
    if (![url.scheme isEqual:@"http"] && ![url.scheme isEqual:@"https"]) {
        if ([[UIApplication sharedApplication]canOpenURL:url]) {
            [[UIApplication sharedApplication]openURL:url];
            return NO;
        }
    }
    return YES;
}

This works very well except for the bloody “Frame Load Interrupted” error. I had thought that by returning false from webView:shouldStartLoadWithRequest:navigationType: that the web view would not load the request and therefore there would be no errors to handle. But even though I return NO above, I still “Frame Load Interrupted” error. Why is that?

Anyway, I’m assuming it can be ignored in -webView:didFailLoadWithError::

- (void)webView:(UIWebView *)wv didFailLoadWithError:(NSError *)error {
    // Ignore NSURLErrorDomain error -999.
    if (error.code == NSURLErrorCancelled) return;

    // Ignore "Fame Load Interrupted" errors. Seen after app store links.
    if (error.code == 102 && [error.domain isEqual:@"WebKitErrorDomain"]) return;

    // Normal error handling…
}

And now iTunes URLs work properly, as do mailto:s and app links.

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