Capture navigation to a custom protocol in a WebView

Question

I am building a windows 8.1 store app, in which I have a webview with hyperlink set to "myapp://xyz". Is it possible to catch this on webview.NavigationStarted event? I get "No apps are  installed to open this type of link(myapp) popup whenever I click on this link. I know it can be achieved if I use window.external.notify in the html. Is there a way to achieve this without using window.external.notify in windows 8.1 apps? I am able to do the same in windows phone 8 apps. Pls help

Answer 1

I am also facing the same issue ..... can anybody help us....

Answer 2

I think this is a functionality issue .... microsoft dev need to check this problem...

Answer 3

Hi all,

Will report this as Feature Request to our seniors engineers. Thanks for the suggestion.

However, WebView is used to load the HTML content at the specified Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). I'm not sure if custom protocol is on the list.

--James

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