"Plugin handled load" dialog appears when playing a video within a web page within UIWebView

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Gruntcakes picture Gruntcakes · Feb 23, 2012 · Viewed 26.1k times · Source

If I click on a link to a video within a web page being displayed by UIWebView then the video plays but a dialog pops up saying "Plugin handled load".

Does anybody know why this happens and how to stop it from happening?

This is not a duplicate of:

Playing videos in UIWebView broken in iOS4?

as I am not creating a UIWebView with a zero size frame, which is described as the cause.

(Am using iOS 5)

Answer

Barlow Tucker picture Barlow Tucker · Apr 17, 2012

The problem would seem to be in the fact the UIWebView does not include the same user agent string as mobile safari. (See this question here).

If your video is being converted to HTML5 or MP4 as your comment above implies, you will want to change the User Agent of your UIWebView to match mobile Safari so your website knows to convert the view from flash (flash will not play on iOS). Here is an answer to how to change the User Agent on a UIWebView.

Note, I have not tried this approach before.

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