How to get the URL for newly created (or redirected) page?

[mechiland]

So like most of the OAuth 2.0 links, like this:

window.open("target-oauth-2.0-url")

// You authorize it // OAuth server will redirect with special sort of "accee token" // The webview browser will actually redirect to "your-callback-url?#access_code=newly_created"

Then how do we get the url so that we can parse the access_code for later use?

[liamks]

In JavaScript you can access the location object. If you want the url use location.href.

[mechiland]

when the page is not yours, there is no way to to inject javascript to the page.

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Liam Kaufman reply@reply.github.com wrote:

In JavaScript you can access the location object. If you want the url use location.href.

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[liamks]

I think document.referrer will get you the url of the previous page.

[mechiland]

Hmm...the problem is...You own neither of them. Let me make the process clearer, as of twitter OAuth example:

1. Open up the MacGap enabled app, with local public/index.html shown up
2. Click Auth via Twitter. MacGap calls macgap.window.open("api.twitter.com/oauth?app_id=xxx&token=yyy")
3. You authorize the app via twitter
4. Twitter redirect the page to another page, probably your app website URL: youapp.com?access_token=zzz
5. Your application is hosted locally...You have to find some way to extract the access_token as you have to use this token access twitter REST API.

I had figured out a way to get the URL though it's nasty...by exposing the URL via some code like "[self.windowController.contentView.webView mainFrameURL]"

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Liam Kaufman reply@reply.github.com wrote:

I think document.referrer will get you the url of the previous page.

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[eliasisrael]

@mechiland Did you ever find a way to do this reliably?

[jeff-h]

@eliasisrael Just thought I'd check that you definitely mean to be in the MacGap 1 issue queue? MacGap 2 is a complete rewrite and no further development is planned for v1.

[eliasisrael]

Good call, @jeff-h ; you're right that I'm trying to get this figured out for MacGap2.