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?

Sprouse

Answer 1

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

Boscage

It is kind of strange, their seems to be no problem with the code – Boscage

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"www.facebook.com/asbreckenridge" ]]; Not working – Grainger

Have you found any solution for opening www.facebook.com – Tailpipe

Answer 2

Try this:

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

Lloyd

Awesome, I dont know what was wrong but it's working now – Sprouse

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. – Lloyd

Answer 3

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"

Underproof