ChildBrower how to close

[Chris]

I'm using the ChildBrowser to login to an external web page to authenticate the user. How do I automatically close the browser when the authentication is done? I was thinking of trying this but it doesn't work as the onLocationChange doesn't seem to fire when the browser is open, or at least I couldn't get it working. Cheers , Chris.

window.plugins.childBrowser.onLocationChange = function (url) {
                  if (url == _successurl)
                      {
                         window.plugins.childBrowser.close();
                      }
}
                  }

[Chris]

Another thing I have just thought is the locationchnage was done with a server redirect - does it have to be a user initiated location change i.e. from a button press? I'm not by a computer right now so I can't test.

[Yavor Georgiev]

Hi Chris,

 The folks at Cordova have come up with a built-in API that supersedes the ChildBrowser plugin. In fact, ChildBrowser is no longer under active development.

 I'd suggest checking out the InAppBrowser API, which is introduced in Cordova 2.4. It has more granular URL loading events which might be able to do what you need.

Regards,
Yavor Georgiev
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[Chris]

How do I add the InAppBrowser to Icenium. Can I just call it from JS in Icenium straight away or do I need to configure Icenium.

I was wondering what this means

<plugin name="InAppBrowser" value="org.apache.cordova.InAppBrowser" />

[Yavor Georgiev]

Hello Chris,

 InAppBrowser is built into Cordova itself. You don't have to do anything in order to be able to call it.

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Yavor Georgiev
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[Chris]

Also if were to open the browser in the Cordova webview

var ref = window.open(encodeURI('http://mydomain.com/login.aspx'), '_self', 'location=yes');
 
In the code on my server is it as simple as putting some js in the page from my server to redirect back.

window.open('home.html', '_self');

[Yavor Georgiev]

Hello Chris,

 I'm afraid it's not that simple - calling window.open from within the InAppBrowser won't close the popup. What you need to do is handle the loadstop event of the InAppBrowser object that window.open returns, watch for a specific url like http://mydomain.com/loginDone.aspx and then close the InAppBrowser.

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Yavor Georgiev
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[Chris]

That seems straight forward I'll give it a try tonight