I'm parsing an RSS feed (which comes in as an XML) and loading it into a UIWebView - and that works perfectly well.
The problem is with the occasional <img>
tags that are in the XML - the images they call aren't showing up (although I do get a placeholder bounding-box where they should be appearing.)
The issue is that those <img>
tags unfortunately contain only partial paths, with no domain name - for example:
<img src="/news-media/images/football/6.jpg" />
To fix that I tried specifying the default domain name in the baseURL
argument:
NSURL *baseURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:@"http://www.myDomain.com"];
[theWebView loadHTMLString:tempHtmlString baseURL:baseURL];
This does not work - the HTML is still loading fine, but the images are not showing up. This does however eliminate the "broken image" icons I was getting before on the images (the kind you usually get when a web-page is trying to load an image that's missing.) Also, I sometimes get a "received memory warning" message - but not always. Seems to happen when loading a page that contains multiple photos. But even when a page has only one photo and I do not receive the "memory" warning, the photo itself doesn't get loaded.
Any ideas what to do? Am I gonna have to manually append the base-URL to all occurrences of the <img>
tag?