Get HTTP Status Code in Android WebView

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Victor Escobar picture Victor Escobar · Aug 9, 2012 · Viewed 30.4k times · Source

I'm developing an Android app that loads a website in a WebView, but sometimes the website returns HTTP code 500.

My question is: is there any way to get the HTTP status code from a WebView with a listener or with another class??

I tried to implement an WebViewClient, but I couldn't get the HTTP status code which WebView received.

Answer

Jeffrey Blattman picture Jeffrey Blattman · Aug 23, 2012

It's not possible (as of the time i'm writing this). The docs for onReceiveError() are ambiguous at best, but it you look at this issue,

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=968

It's clear that HTTP status codes won't be reported through that mechanism. How it's possible that the developers wrote WebView with no way to retrieve the HTTP status code really blows my mind.

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