Android WebView automatically loading index.html

Question

I'm creating an android webview that loads a simple html page:

WebView myWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
    WebSettings webSettings = myWebView.getSettings();
    webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
    webSettings.setAllowContentAccess(true);
    myWebView.loadUrl("http://10.0.2.2/external/login.html");

But for some reason, when the page loads it is loading http://10.0.2.2/external/index.html all the time, even if I explicitly specify a different html page such as login.html above. I'm running a simple http server at http://10.0.2.2/ (my local machine). Is there a setting somewhere that causes this? How can I make it load the page I want it to and not index.html?

Thanks.

It could be annything - TEST <br> TEST - happens no matter what — user2966960
– user2966960, Commented Dec 15, 2015 at 21:51
Actually it doesn't happen without this - webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true); But it needs javascript - any way around that? — user2966960
– user2966960, Commented Dec 15, 2015 at 21:51
ok check my answer and show us the code of the login.html page. — Jorgesys
– Jorgesys, Commented Dec 15, 2015 at 21:53
See below. Redirect problem in javascript - not a problem with android or android studio etc. — user2966960
– user2966960, Commented Dec 16, 2015 at 22:34

Jorgesys · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-16 22:34:13Z

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Actually it doesn't happen without this - webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);

Probably your web pages contain a script to redirect to index.html, like :

window.location = " http://10.0.2.2/external/index.html ";

edited Dec 16, 2015 at 22:34

answered Dec 15, 2015 at 21:53

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user2966960 Over a year ago

This ended up being a redirect problem with the javascript that I thought was inherently tied to android studio or android but was incorrect. It wasn't exactly as simple as the location=? but it wasn't really auto-selecting the index.html as I thought it was.

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