(UWP)Web view opening empty html file when trying to open using Navigator, Source file is in the app package on navigation for c#

Question

I have a scenario when I have to authenticate the app with a provider and then redirect back to the app on a successful login.

The redirect Url is ms-appx-web:///UI/app.html .

This app.html has contents and these contents were loading before authentication and redirect.

After Redirecting the app.html has 0 lines of code, hence showing empty screen in the Windows app

For example: Authenticating using Microsoft account in the Windows app using Web view and after authenticating having a redirect_url back to Windows app using ms-appx-web:///UI/app.html . App.html is loaded but without content(Hence empty page).

Answer 1

You can try to encode redirect url in you whole link.

But for UWP applications, the more recommended way to authorize is to use the Web authentication broker , which is used exclusively for authorization.

You can intercept the redirect url and set the Source property of the WebView based on the result. This is a safer practice.

Here is the document about the Web authentication broker .

Best regards.