Open a "transparent" webview with the redirection because the affiliation doesnt work

[RealBug]

Hi,

the idea is nice but sadly the redirection doesnt work in background. Maybe, can we open a transparent webview with the redirection ?

BR

[RealBug]

Example :

1) load this in a webview myURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://clk.tradedoubler.com/click?p=23753&a=1611348&g=0&td_partnerId=2003&url=https://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/twitter/id333903271"]; [myWebView loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:myURL]];

2) TD load this : URL: http://solutions.tradedoubler.com/redirect/itunesredir/td_redirect.php?programId=23753&affId=1611348&tduid=87c0fe43ef95770e08a1329d2f5d469f&url=https%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Ffr%2Fapp%2Ftwitter%2Fid333903271%3FpartnerId%3D2003

3) Apple load this : URL: https://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/twitter/id333903271?partnerId=2003&tduid=87c0fe43ef95770e08a1329d2f5d469f&affId=1611348

4) Apple launch the app store and quit the webview URL: itms-appss://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/twitter/id333903271?partnerId=2003&tduid=87c0fe43ef95770e08a1329d2f5d469f&affId=1611348

I think if we cut the process of the step 4, it will be ok maybe because Apple write the affiliation line in his BDD at the step 3.

[jvenegas]

Hi RB,

I did the same test as you did, also I use did this the affiliate redirection class to get the URL on the step 3:

itunesURL: https://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/twitter/id333903271?partnerId=2003&tduid=87c0fe43ef95770e08a1329d2f5d469f&affId=1611348

So here it is a piece of code can be add to get a proper App Store URL.

AffiliateRedirection *aff = [[AffiliateRedirection alloc] initWithURL:MyURL];
        [aff openAffiliateRedirectionWithBlock:^(NSURL *itunesURL, NSError *error) {
            NSString *schema = [itunesURL.scheme stringByAppendingString:@"://"];
            NSRange range = [itunesURL.absoluteString rangeOfString:schema];
            if (range.location == NSNotFound) {
                //Error
                NSLog(@"string was not found");

            } else {
                NSString *noSchemaString = [itunesURL.absoluteString stringByReplacingCharactersInRange:range withString:@""];
                NSString *absoluteAppStoreURL = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%@", @"itms-appss://", noSchemaString];
                NSURL *appStoreURL = [NSURL URLWithString:absoluteAppStoreURL];
                NSLog(@"%@", appStoreURL);
                if ( [[UIApplication sharedApplication] canOpenURL:appStoreURL] ) {
                    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:appStoreURL];
                }
            }
        }];

After doing this I am going to create a new method called openAffiliateRedirectionOnAppStoreWithBlock. Open the SKStoreProductViewController is still interesting but there is not way to get revenue from affiliate links, so I hope apple create a new parameters to pass to the SKStoreProductViewController.

Any idea and comment are welcome :)