Itunes app links are not working with WkWebview

Question

One of the webpage I load into Wkwebview has the following iTunes app link

 https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/xx-yy-zz/id435919263?mt=8

when it's opened I'm getting the following alert

and here's the error that I've got.

{
    "[errorCode]" = 0;
    "[errorDescription]" = "Redirection to URL with a scheme that is not HTTP(S)";
    "[errordetail]" = "Con:myappxxxx:myorder:webview:networkerror";
    "[localizedRecoverySuggestion]" = "";
    "[url]" = "itms-appss://apps.apple.com/gb/app/xx-yy-zz/id435919263";
}

When the same iTunes link ( https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/xx-yy-zz/id435919263?mt=8 ) is opened in UIWebview , I saw that URL gets redirected to following URL and app opens in appstore

 itms-appss://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/xx-yy-zz/id435919263?mt=8

Whereas in Wkwebview , the URL gets redirected to following URL

 itms-appss://apps.apple.com/gb/app/xx-yy-zz/id435919263

Any help is appreciated

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Update

I even tried Arbitrary uploads to true for transport security and the problem is still there.

Error Domain= Code=0 "Redirection to URL with a scheme that is not HTTP(S)" UserInfo={_WKRecoveryAttempterErrorKey=, NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=itms-appss://apps.apple.com/gb/app/xx-yy-zz/id435919263, NSErrorFailingURLKey=itms-appss://apps.apple.com/gb/app/xx-yy-zz/id435919263, NSLocalizedDescription=Redirection to URL with a scheme that is not HTTP(S)}

Answer 1

I think you could try to intercept the itunes link in wkwebview's delegate methods and open the URL using openURL

The below source code will open any itms-appss links in wkwebview. Don't forget to conform to WKNavigationDelegate

   - (void)webView:(WKWebView *)webView decidePolicyForNavigationAction:(WKNavigationAction *)navigationAction decisionHandler:(void (^)(WKNavigationActionPolicy))decisionHandler {
    if ([webURL.scheme isEqualToString:@"itms-appss"])
        {
                UIApplication *app = [UIApplication sharedApplication];
    if ([app canOpenURL:webURL])
    {
        [self.webviewObj stopLoading];
        [app openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:[webURL absoluteString]]];
        decisionHandler(WKNavigationActionPolicyCancel);
     } else{
        decisionHandler(WKNavigationActionPolicyCancel);
       }
        }
    else
       {
            decisionHandler(WKNavigationActionPolicyAllow);
        }
     return;
    }