Android Webview POST
Two ways to load post response in webview:
webview.loadData(): Like what you have posted in your solution. But "content loaded through this mechanism does not have the ability to load content from the network".webview.postUrl(): Use this if post response needs to load content from the network. (NOTE: only accessible from api-level 5, which means no android 1.6 or lower)
String postData = "username=my_username&password=my_password";webview.postUrl(url,EncodingUtils.getBytes(postData, "BASE64"));(source: http://www.anddev.org/other-coding-problems-f5/webview-posturl-postdata-t14239.html)
Try this:
private static final String URL_STRING = "http://www.yoursite.com/postreceiver";public void postData() throws IOException, ClientProtocolException { List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(); nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("foo", "12345")); nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("bar", "23456")); HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(); HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(URL_STRING); httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs)); HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost); }I would recommend doing this as part of an AsyncTask and updating the WebView afterwards
I use webView.loadData() to do client post, and it will display content of url, my code :
public static void webview_ClientPost(WebView webView, String url, Collection< Map.Entry<String, String>> postData){ StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); sb.append("<html><head></head>"); sb.append("<body onload='form1.submit()'>"); sb.append(String.format("<form id='form1' action='%s' method='%s'>", url, "post")); for (Map.Entry<String, String> item : postData) { sb.append(String.format("<input name='%s' type='hidden' value='%s' />", item.getKey(), item.getValue())); } sb.append("</form></body></html>"); webView.loadData(sb.toString(), "text/html", "UTF-8"); }use function webview_ClientPost() :
Map<String, String> mapParams = new HashMap<String, String>(); mapParams.put("param1", "111");mapParams.put("param2", "222");Collection<Map.Entry<String, String>> postData = mapParams.entrySet();webview_ClientPost(webView1, "http://www.yoursite.com/postreceiver", postData);